Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...count on one hand the number of writers given high administrative responsibility. Saxon was one of them, and maybe the most highly regarded of the lot. On several occasions Washington...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
..."how are you," usually spoken heartily. From Prairie Schooner, volume XL, number 3 (Fall 1966) Reprinted with permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright 1966 by the University of Nebraska...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...to reenact a human rights atrocity at the locale where it took place? Considering Reenactment: Between Ritual, Mythos, and History Before examining the annual Moore’s Ford events in detail, it...
Writing Appalachia
...with copyright holders. Some writing we wished to include was off-limits to us due to copyright restrictions increasingly imposed by large commercial publishing houses. Within these restrictions, we have tried...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...the perspective of American exceptionalism, which, according to Paulus, proslavery leaders "defined as the ability to employ either a congressional or states' rights approach to defend and perpetuate the institution...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...and practices throughout the Atlantic world. This system not only circumscribed the meager legal rights of enslaved peoples, but also placed special emphasis upon policing the "intimacies" (123) of sex...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...commentary that could be examined and reworked. Granted, much of it fell far short, but some earlier projects had made suggestive contributions. (McCandless rightly acknowledges, for example, the perceptive study...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
Review The present system of flood control in the Mississippi Valley is a compromise resulting from a long and complicated interplay among interest groups. The current solution to the problem...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
..."I fear it may be difficult to come up with another project which will be so full of meaning for me," gay rights activist Dr. Jesse Peel wrote in his...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...the Spartanburg Herald on May 19, 1875, offered "Singer's celebrated sewing machines, the cheapest and the best sewing machine, for sale on easy terms." In the same issue, McK. Johnstone...