Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
...painstaking "by the print" method. In each bandanna, she quilted a line down the center of the figured white handkerchief border, and added parallel lines on either side. The central...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...enforcement to conceal their abuses from federal authorities. For a discussion of environmental history methodologies, see Gunther Peck, "The Nature of Labor: Fault Lines and Common Ground in Environmental and...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...Radical Environmentalism. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020). They move beyond a celebratory narrative to embed the environmental movement within the larger political and social developments of the past half-century....
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...understanding of the word family. The philosophy of Key West since 2000 has been "One Human Family," in which all are equal and all resist narratives that seek to divide...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...the usual linear settler/colonial paradigm that frames the subject and to instead address long and recurring cycles of Cherokee dislocation, movement, and coalescence. The problems that beset any diasporic people—a...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...movement, now set to be waged in county local option contests, needed black political support" (101). Map of Middle Florida, 2012. Southern Prohibition focuses upon two local studies (Leon and...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...would later become the Confederacy" (4). In addition to traditional colonial sources, Dubcovsky delves into material culture, oral traditions, linguistics, and iconography to reveal how, from the pre-Columbian era to...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...Southern Autographics, incorporates hand-written drawings and text with photographic imagery to create narratives of historical, environmental, and personal significance. Many of his pieces are photographic collages that juxtapose the South's...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
Essay Map of global ecoregions. Courtesy of World Wildlife Fund. Environmental history emphasizes the role of humans as an integral part of their natural surroundings. Ecological systems and biological diversity,...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...and space, he argues, though consumption creates a portal through which a listener can inhabit this audiotopia.2Audiotopia is Josh Kun's term. Audiotopia represents the visceral, emotional, and intellectual experiences of...