Mississippi: State of Confession
...come to the rescue of white congregations in ways that can excuse and blur the history. Such chroniclers have argued that southern white congregations were largely moderate and either removed...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...October 27, 2007. Photograph by Flickr user psychdelicfivecats. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Bottom, North Carolina school bus. Photograph by Flickr user Dale Moore. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND...
New Shades o'Death Creek
...the mountain and now at the top edge, was the familiar jutting rock of Fallam Point. "Is Montefalco totally gone?" Earl Dotter, Oldhouse Branch Refuse Valley Fill Impoundment, Enterprise Mining...
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...history projects about underrepresented race, class, gender, and labor histories in the South Carolina Lowcountry and the interconnected Atlantic World. This inclusive approach to Lowcountry history promotes greater awareness and audience...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...mourned the dead, raised children, and negotiated a subsistence economy. They did so not because women are inherently more nurturing than men but because culture, society, and law carved out...
The Carolina Piedmont
...agricultural practices and construction techniques, borrowing from Germans and English, the dominant Scotch-Irish spread a subsistence-agriculture, log-house, livestock, corn, and woodlands-pasture culture throughout the region and into the Appalachians. The...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...place. Absent such historicization, the story of immigration to the South will remain incoherent not simply or even primarily because it is ongoing but also because it does not possess...
History: The Parlor
...as the one built by Samuel Snoddy before his marriage, would also include some sort of sitting room intended for the family's private use. Material culture researchers frequently refer to...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...increased use of formerly segregated sites led whites to abandon public spaces in favor of private facilities. States and cities steadily withdrew support for public parks and recreation.2Kevin M. Kruse,...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...Dasgupta, "New Geospatial Bill Raises Questions on Private Industry Use, Academic Research, and Digital India." The Wired (May 10, 2016): http://thewire.in/35044/new-geospatial-bill-raises-a-hundred-questions-on-private-industry-use-academic-research-and-digital-india/. A New Map of Africa, the Latest Authorities, 1811....