The Black Belt
...slaves were most profitable, and consequently they were taken there in the largest numbers. Later, and especially since the war, the term seems to be used wholly in a political...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...and Ohio. The inflatable likeness belongs to the Mother Jones Heritage Project, a pro-labor organization based in the Chicago area. Jim Dixon of Springfield, Illinois, drove her down to Alabama....
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...with over 72,000 Confederate and over 100,000 Union men engaged, the map highlights nearly all of the counties in the North and South except those in southern Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...within the nation. North/South Lights in Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio, December 10, 2014. Photograph courtesy of Flickr user Travis Wise. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0....
New Shades o'Death Creek
Excerpt Set in West Virginia, this excerpt from Giardina's novel of time-space travel, Fallam's Secret (2003), evokes the physical and emotional landscapes of mountaintop removal in the southern Appalachians. On...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...to Mississippi include California, Connecticut, Minnesota, New York, Vermont, and Washington. Additionally, both Washington, DC, and select counties in Wisconsin, Ohio, Maryland, and Oregon issued travel bans. Cities including Baltimore,...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...associate professor of English at Miami University of Ohio where she teaches early American literature, culture, and environment. She is the author of Liquid Landscape: Geography and Settlement at the Edge of...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...were built for middle class Americans. See Annie S. Barnes, The Black Middle Class Family: A Study of Black Subsociety, Neighborhood, and Home in Interaction (Lima, Ohio: Wyndham Hall Press,...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...clergy to assert that many transplanted and home-grown white evangelicals in northern states such as Illinois and Ohio, exhibited "a great sympathy for the resistant and recalcitrant [white] Christians in...
Mapping Souths
...not any one smile," he wrote, "to think of the Ohio River and the Potomac being such grand national barriers as must . . . constitute of necessity the nations...