Residues of Border Control
...found and photographed are often private and reveal the identity of border crossers. Some have actual identifying potential, as they contain the border crossers’ DNA. The portrayal of everyday objects...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...Historical and Genealogical Magazine 50, no. 3 (1949): 115–26. For references to the carriage-making reputation of the town, see "Pendleton," The Historical Marker Database, accessed July 20, 2022, https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=9614. Local...
Single Centers of Creation?
...a new line in the story. If we could trace all our origins all the way back, we would find that we salamanders, we hominids, we birds, we slime molds...
The Border South
...contributed to the crisis' resolution. Naval bases in Maryland and Virginia represented massive federal power in the region, not to mention federal dollars and jobs. Businessmen were dubious of school...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...from a mechanical recording; it becomes a collaborative, multivocal interrogation of both external and internal realities in which the initial exposure is only a minimalist starting point."12Ibid., 75. In Looking...
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...Citadel, examines the development and aftermath of the Hospital Workers' Strike. The protestors were predominately African American women from the Medical College Hospital and the Charleston County Hospital who joined...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...had lived there? Those Xs raised questions without answers, and although the symbol was strong, I filed it all away as a memory of Floyd. Almost seven years later the...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...traditional sources and deep archival work. But digital methods give me more tools to do what we’re all trying to accomplish, which is to answer questions. It allows me to...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...Southern problems," but he was also a "progressive, albeit sympathetic, interpreter of the Southern scene." As reviewers asserted, Daniels' background and moderately liberal (although racially segregationist) views made him the...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...Photo: Rick Rhodes. Susan Harbage Page's Background Material: Columns refer to the often unacknowledged but critical social function of privileged women. Framing the entrance to the exhibition, the pair of...