Reckoning with Enslavement
Excerpt Georgetown, April 2017 It was early morning when I crossed the Francis Scott Key Bridge from Virginia into Georgetown. College spires loomed in the distance, gray in the dawn...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...has a photograph of a rubbing of the same stone. It leans against a tree and is partly illuminated by sunlight. Text carved in relief is nearly invisible in this...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...suppress slave rebellions on a federal scale. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in public domain. In 1789, many US citizens gloried in the spread of the ideals of the...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...internalized it, absorbing it into their geographical imaginations where it sometimes constrained behavior. On several occasions, they didn't carry out racist violence even when they deemed it justifiable. In these...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...cranes of the Nashville Avenue terminal, it is almost impossible to come into visual contact with port activity in New Orleans. This is true despite the fact that the American...
The Black Belt
...photographs from 1914 US Geological Survey “Cretaceous Deposits of the Eastern Gulf Region,” Selma, Alabama, ca. 1914. Image uploaded by Flickr user Internet Archive Book Images. Image is in the...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...Congress Geography and Map Division, loc.gov/item/2011590003/. From the perspective of a criminal defense, the fact is that if this is an Indian Reservation, if it still exists, then these two...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...Indiana, where he died, reported this as a consequence of his suffering in Spartanburg.4The jail time in Spartanburg is linked to Barrett's death in his obituary as reported in New...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...shed as the house appears in relative contrast — pleasant, somewhat imposing, and upright. It is larger than I had expected and inviting despite its desertion. A small sign indicates...
Brushes with War
...eyes on veterans wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan, while most Americans were looking elsewhere.1 A CBS interview with Michael Fay is at http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57427637/sketching-veterans-recovering-from-war-so-their-stories-arent-lost/. His blog, "Fire and Ice," is at...