Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
Excerpt After the end of the Civil War, recently freed Black people endeavored to create their own communities. During Reconstruction, and with newfound access to political and economic power, Black...
The Carolina Piedmont
...a countryside filled with freed blacks, and appeals to "fight like men for our firesides." Bennett Place, Durham County, N.C. Because Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered to General William...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...following the jazz giant's death in Brooklyn earlier that year. High-culture mandarins weren't bashful about voicing displeasure with the name change, insisting there were better places to celebrate “jungle music”...
Residues of Border Control
...do not show encounters between Border Patrol officers and migrants, but they depict the rubber gloves and bullet casings. They do not follow immigrants into detention, but register the residue—detention...
1108 Dynamite Hill
...color line and built homes on the west side of Center Street. Between 1947 and 1965, Black residences in Birmingham were bombed at least fifty times. A graduate of Morehouse College...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...Verey and Penelope Hobhouse. Looking into Ryan Gainey's Garden, Decatur, Georgia, March 26, 2010. Photograph by Flickr user JR P. Creative commons license CC BY-NC 2.0. Chad Stogner, founder of...
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: Dr. Crespino discusses and suggests the limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: Dr. Crespino traces the idea of Mississippi as...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...York: Domino Sugar Factory. From Robert Southey, to Voltaire, to Victor Schoelcher, to Aimé Césaire, abolitionists, philosophers, and poets alike have used the trope of blood to denounce the dehumanizing...
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy Question and Answer Wallace-Sanders responds to questions about the photographs she uses, the proposed Mammy Memorial Institute, the political responses...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...SC From 1894 to 1917, the Black family lived in this large house on North Converse Street. The house no longer stands. Photograph courtesy the Black family. Mid-nineteenth-century homes included...