Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...Native American and United States history and participates in WCU's Cherokee Studies program. Denson is author of Demanding the Cherokee Nation: Indian Autonomy and American Culture (University of Nebraska Press, 2004)....
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...between "strong" and "weak" states. See William J. Novak, "The Myth of the 'Weak' American State," American Historical Review 113, no. 3 (2008) and Michael Mann, The Sources of Social...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
...His poems have appeared in various print and online journals, including Mid-American Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Greensboro Review, Backwards City Review, and Southeast Review. Interview with...
Besieged Terrain
...The technique destroys forests, introduces heavy metals into drinking water, vastly increases erosion and flooding, and reduces the number of many species of birds, especially wood warblers, and other rare...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...have imagined their new singings as revivals of these lapsed earlier practices.2See John Bealle, Public Worship, Private Faith: Sacred Harp and American Folksong (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997), 188–244...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...migratory patterns render it difficult for many African Americans to lay claim to just one regional identity, the South remains a place of great intrigue for a substantial number of...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...on Thlewarle and Mendoza’s story illuminate tensions of spatial jurisdictions About the Author Dr. Craig Womack is an Oklahoma Creek-Cherokee Native American literary scholar, writer, and teacher. He received an...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
Review The Virginia Historical Society (VHS) in Richmond, Virginia, has mounted an ambitious, highly original, and innovative exhibition on the history of the Civil War, "An American Turning Point: The...
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...partnership with the College of Charleston's Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture and the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program (CLAW), LDHI's mission is to facilitate public...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...in and of the American South," Southern Cultures (Summer 2000): 50–72; Mart A. Stewart, "Southern Environmental History," in John B. Boles, ed., A Companion to the American South (Maiden, MA: 2002),...