The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...the Civil War, the programs are, inevitably, unequal to the task. Words and symbols and good will, museums and lectures and conversations, cannot atone for centuries of injustice, and no...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...deemed a safer alternative.79Traugott Braume, Hand- und Reisebuch für Auswanderer und Reisende nach Nord, Mittel, und Süd-Amerika (Bamberg, Germany: Buchner Publishing, 1853), 612–613. Auswanderer-karte und wegweiser nach Nordamerika, Emigration map...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...Americans and Dalits (formerly known as Untouchables), two long subordinated and stigmatized groups in the United States and India, respectively. The juxtaposition of two rather different locations and histories and,...
Seneca Quarry
...The ARC Identifier is 3025595, MLR Number A1 18. Congratulations are in order for Professor Mark Auslander for publishing his well researched and excellent article, "Enslaved Labor and Building the...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...Hodges and Terry Sanford in the 1950s and early 1960s set the tone for the last half of the twentieth century, emphasizing racial moderation and new models of business and...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...and vigilantes killed as many as seventy black men and women in the "reign of terror" that swept him up (41–43). For Herndon and his comrades, the arrest and prosecution...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...to hold back spring floods come immediately to mind. Heaped with cotton bales and hogsheads of sugar, these manmade levees were famous for their babble of bustle and clamor. But...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...and privileges of all persons born or naturalized in the United States; due process and equal protection of the laws; House apportionment based on "the whole number of persons;" and...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
...poetry, and fiction, and has taught many courses related to her interests in race and gender, history and memory, location and cultural space, women's writing, American literature, and the US...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...and more stories of twenty- and thirty-somethings of my demographic—and by my demographic, I mean hipsters with MFAs in creative writing—moving there. Apparently, this is a trend, so says Richard...