The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
Presentation About the Speaker Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell professor of American History, co-director of the Center for Visual History, and associate director of the Center for Native American Studies at...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...to take, returning the rest to forage through the delta mud. The numbers in the coolers spoke: they were falling, 300 pounds, 225, 175. Every year they fell—he remembers 1,500...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...the United States, due process and equal protection of the laws, House apportionment based on "the whole number of persons," and citizens' right to vote without regard to "race, color,...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...we, the Americans, we, the American people, are able to accept the fact . . . that on that continent we are trying to forge a new identity, that we...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...empire abolished slavery. It seemed to be an era of emancipation. Matthew Karp's This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy joins a chorus of scholarship...
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,...
Winslow Homer and the American Civil War
...several features in the painting: gourds, the building, the woman’s clothes and her mixed race lineage About Peter H. Wood is an emeritus professor of American history at Duke University....
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...right? What groups should be banned from the "Alcoholic Republic"? Not surprisingly, the Florida Legislative Council of 1832 forbade the sale of alcohol to Native Americans. Shortly thereafter, legislators prohibited...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...Anthropology 14 (August 2013): 304–7; James Clifford, "Indigenous Articulations," Contemporary Pacific 13 (Fall 2001): 470–72, 478–79; Robin Delugan, "Indigeneity across Borders: Hemispheric Migrations and Cosmopolitan Encounters," American Ethnologist 37 (February...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...of African Americans in the US South. Much like West Africans who were grappling with the inheritances of colonialism, African Americans lived daily with the reality of being both African...