Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...the midwestern and southwestern regions once controlled by Mississippian chiefdoms. He rejects the primacy of disease in the collapse of chiefdoms, instead using European traders’ accounts and limited archaeological evidence...
Tracing the Arctic Regions: Mapping 19th Century Photographs of Greenland
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker George Philip LeBourdais is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. His research explores the...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...as the instigator, is from the Owensboro (Ky.) Daily Inquirer, 21 Apr. 1911, 1. Owensboro is a small city located near Livermore, in the western region of the state. A...
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
...Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. He is the author of The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, Slavery and Human Progress,...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...the entire community. Collectives experimented with different models for self-sufficiency to free themselves from the obligations of capitalist patriarchy. Very few women stayed in these collectives for long; manifestos often...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...father asked her about school. "He was not a talker," she says with a smile, "but he was a good listener." Virginia told him and her siblings what her teacher...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...you ran in front of him. I like the list here. I like the order. Everybody communicates with everybody very strongly."29Tomás Alcántara [pseud.], interview by author, interpreted by Eva Villafañe,...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...and Jerry Falwell (228). The push for racial equality was the abomination in the temple.7A. G. Miller, "The Construction of a Black Fundamentalist Worldview: The Role of Bible Schools," in...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...as West Kendall and Perrine), participate in more overtly "sacramental rites" at a Traditionalist Catholic shrine in Little Havana (the Shrine of St. Philomena),3The Traditionalist Catholic movement performs sacraments in...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...History (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005), 103-130. In 2011 alone dozens of new Civil War histories appeared and to provide an exhaustive list here would not be possible. The...