Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...get to use in today's world. But the word that comes to this driver's mind is slow. I feel it immediately as I enter the roadway—not only my car decelerating...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...into a more appropriate and useful channel."2Simpson, "Note to the Public," v–vi. Despite his groundbreaking creativity, Simpson is little known today. Few scholars have written about his work, and he...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...virus responsible for yellow fever, August 7, 2013. Photograph by Alain Grillet. Image uploaded by Flickr user Sanofi Pasteur. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Unbeknownst at the time, yellow...
Birdhouses
...the distance begin to brighten, deep blue to something like green. Everything winged must be dreaming. —Susan Ludvigson, "Grace"2Susan Ludvigson, Sweet Confluence: New and Selected Poems (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...poetic qualities of Ariel's Ecology. Leonora Sansay's travelogue, Secret History (1808), and a novel sometimes attributed to her, Zelica (1820) (in which the Haitian revolutionary Henri Christophe sets Saint-Domingue's capital...
Brushes with War
...sky, from the arctic to the Andes. Suitably, the book's engaging cover image—The Camp of the Seventh Regiment near Frederick, Maryland (1863), by Sanford Robinson Gifford—highlights a respected, though little-remembered,...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...a captured copy of the 1915 Plan de San Diego revealed Carranza adherents' intent to use a series of violent uprisings to regain territory in the old Spanish Southwest (Texas,...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...today's Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida—were central to early American knowledge production. At first glance the image appears to be a familiar allegory of Europe's conquest of the Americas. It...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
Introduction At high noon, Nashville time, on Monday, May 17, 1954, all nine justices of the United States Supreme Court in Washington joined in a declaration that legally-sanctioned racial segregation...
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
A Mind to Stay Here Part 2: Egerton compares his observations in The Americanization of Dixie with social conditions today Part 3: Egerton traces recent politics in the New South, noting how...