Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...rights struggles occurred simultaneously. Despite repeated calls for cooperation and a number of examples of interethnic alliances, African Americans and Mexican Americans ultimately 'fought their own battles'" (2). Behnken examines...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...sided with the Confederacy. There were a disproportionate number of Creek leaders who had close ties to the Deep South: economic relationships, cultural influences, and, to some degree, plantation systems....
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...relationship between evangelical revivalism and the temperance movement? Clearly, passion for banning hard spirits rose and fell as religious fervors ebbed and flowed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Why...
Watching the Surface for a Sign
Readings Patrick Phillips reads "Brass Knuckles." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "The Chimney." Poem text. Patrick Phillips reads "The Flood." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "Heaven." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads an excerpt...
Bricking the Church
Poem Robert Morgan reads his poem "Bricking the Church," 2014. Bricking the Church At the foot of Meetinghouse Hill where once the white chapel pointed among junipers and pulled a...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
Readings Dan Albergotti reads "The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "The Boatloads." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "Accidents Happen with...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...members of her community, many who sought their freedom by way of fugitive paths, to love themselves, fully and deeply, precisely because of the white world outside the safety of...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...Charbonnier, Affluence and Freedom: An Environmental History of Political Ideas (Cambridge: Polity, 2021). It could indeed be pointed out that the rationalism defended by the philosophers of the Enlightenment, whose...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...region, and the distinctive environment of the Lowcountry. In those days, black South Carolinians, enslaved or free, played little role in the state’s official past, and medical history, there and...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...the end of a trolley line. Although these parks often offered free admission, trolley companies still benefited financially from their existence in several ways. The park's location at the line's...