Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...tide reveals complex dendritic drainage patterns in tidal creeks, with a road, telephone wires, and power lines as human influences on these environments. 1:53 – This is Cabretta Beach, with...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...site" from early twentieth-century socialists to suffragettes to Iraq war protesters.19David Nolan, interview with the author, March 22, 2012. "Slave market" is not found in written records until the 1870s.20For...
Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...Music and musical instrument stores Concert and performance venues Music making at home, in the workplace, and in public spaces Sacred and religious music, religious musical cultures Song collecting and...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...the sacred fires that centered each town in the eighteenth century to engagement with the federal government's so-called "civilization" policy in the early nineteenth century, to the valorization of blood...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...Yet many of them would die in disproportionate numbers on the island during the peak years of the AIDS epidemic. You need look no further than the many Hispanic names—names...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...a great deal in the reading. With impressive powers of description, Wise builds narrative tension and constructs dramatic arcs without sacrificing complexity. The work strikes a balance between fluid forward-moving...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...have become permanent inmates of a carceral landscape: mute and nearly mummified human sacrifices to a commodity-producing global machinery. Damian Alan Pargas does not quibble with the argument that slaveholding...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...formal parlor, sometimes described by social historians as a "sacred" space, where weddings, funerals, and other public events were held. In addition, larger houses, such as the one built by...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
.... . that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events . . . The Almighty...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...Hutchison instead offers a number of "themes"—all significant and important—that emerge from Apples and Ashes, including the transnational nature of Confederate literature, the cosmopolitan aspirations of Confederate writers, and the...