St. Catherines Island Flyover
Video and Essay One of the barrier islands along the Georgia coast of the Atlantic Ocean, St. Catherines has an extraordinary ecological and settlement history. First inhabited more than four...
The Colonialist's Gaze
...appearance or dress. Anemia caused by hookworm decimated Puerto Rican rural workers. After the discoveries of Dr. Bailey Ashford, an effective clinical treatment became available in 1904.1For more on Ashford...
The World of Chick-Fil-A and the Business of Sunbelt Evangelicalism
Presentation Part 2: Grem discusses conservative evangelical organizations and the rise of Christian small business in the twentieth century Part 3: S. Truett Cathy, evangelical and corporate America, Sunbelt politics, and...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
Excerpt: "Jim Crow Journeys" The humiliations involved in traveling Jim Crow began before Black travelers even boarded their trains. By the beginning of the 1890s the proliferation of separate car...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...America.1Joe A. Mobley, "In the Shadow of White Society: Princeville, a Black Town in North Carolina, 1865–1915," North Carolina Historical Review 63, no. 3 (1986): 340–84. Though Princeville may look...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
Introduction Filmed during the 1990s and released on PBS in 2000, Goin’ to Chicago is a sixty minute film about the largest internal movement of people in United States history—the...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...communication. A generation later, in a post 9/11 America, European students continue to engage Native American literary texts and theories in the attempt to make sense of the world that...
The Change
...their slaves they brought from Africa when they sold our ancestors as slaves in the Middle East, that then the tobacco was sacred to all of us and we prayed...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...comprehend the horrendous injustice of slavery, the kidnapping of millions of people from Africa, the stealing of their lives from them, and then the theft of their labor for hundreds...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...way America exerts power over other countries and exploits them. JAMES: Did you see similarities or connections between class inequalities or exploitation in West Virginia, and American Samoa as part...