Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...Photograph by unknown creator. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in the public domain. A freeborn Black abolitionist from Ohio, Joshua McCarter Simpson opened his 1854 indictment of the hypocrisy...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...and attained its current form during the final cycle of the latest glaciation. The eastern edge of the Delta contributes to the section's eastern boundary with the Section 2215, "Oak-Hickory...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...even while dealing with her own personal and financial hardships. Even so, the places she constructs in her fiction, at least in her later work, are spaces of whiteness and...
Encountering COVID
...family he is brain dead, which he's not." When I woke up, I asked my wife when was Easter, and she said, "Boy, Easter been gone." And I say, "Where...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...blend of natural and human history. The western half of the island is composed primarily of Pleistocene sediments deposited along a shoreline 40–50,000 years ago. Much of its eastern half...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...compulsion to expand American territory. He made this portion of the southeast into "Jacksonland," beginning his lifelong project of turning Indian homelands into US possessions. John Ross to Andrew Jackson,...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...coming from the east and you have the sea level rise coming from the west. Those two are coming together in the same place and having this devastating effect. Dimmitt:...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...migrant heartbreaks as in the story of an enslaved woman named Nancy who in 1815 was freed by her master only to learn that under a 1806 law she had...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
Readings Fall Creek As though shedding an old skin, Fall Creek slips free from fall's weight, clots of leaves blackening snags, back of pool where years ago local lore...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...male. However, since at the least the 1970s, women have worked in the mines, including underground, albeit in small numbers. I use the language of "wives and widows" because most...