The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...for three decades. About the Author Thomas Blake Earle is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. His scholarship examines the intersection of American foreign...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...on similar issues. to Kara Walker's cut-paper silhouette art in her 2007–2008 exhibit "American Primitives."28On "American Primitives," see Grace Elizabeth Hale's "A Horrible, Beautiful Beast," Southern Spaces, March 6, 2008,...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...and Derek H. Alderman, Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of Memory (Chicago: Center for American Places at Columbia College, 2008); Renee Christine Romano and Leigh Raiford, The Civil Rights...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...origin in a preexisting repertoire shared by both groups. Among those who moved west to the Chattahoochee Valley were Sacred Harp editors B.F. White and E.J. King. Born in 1800,...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...nineteenth centuries the Lowcountry proved “the deadliest disease region on the North American mainland,” especially in the summer and fall. “Carolina is in the spring a paradise,” commented a German...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...is Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia in cooperation with the Coal River Folklife Project and the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Dave...
How I Shed My Skin
...the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and received a special citation from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation; Dream Boy, winner of the American Library Association GLBT Award for Literature (the...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...trio of formerly enslaved cousins, Mound Bayou emerged in the Reconstruction era as a burgeoning example of what African American autonomy could become in the dissolution of slavery.1Joel Nathan Rosen,...
Good-Bye to All That?
...for broad sacrifice from the American people, who bluntly told them there was no free lunch. And Americans hated it. Ronald Reagan set the template: every candidate that followed, with...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...rural Alabama, these images follow the daily activities of an extended African American family in their segregated, southern town. When they appeared as part of the Life photo essay "The...