Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...by Dr. Marc Mullinax. Courtesy of the Liston B. Ramsey Center for Regional Studies at Mars Hill University. By doing their jobs, Appalachian Studies teachers and researchers have furthered the...
Writing Appalachia
...Downing or Vaux."15Strother, "A Winter in the South, Fifth Paper," Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1858), 721. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the region has felt the full effects of...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...2003, ten students attended public schools. The new majority of southern students demands new public policies. The success or failure of low-income students has enormous repercussions for all, as well...
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective Part 2: Davis discusses connections between enslaved African labor, trans-Atlantic trade, and emerging anti-slavery movements Part 3: Davis discusses three major factors...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
Review Sensory history is an exciting new approach to writing history. It offers a fresh take on past perceptions. Sensing between the lines of written sources, the sensory historian recasts...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...violence that characterized the post-Mississippian Native landscape altered political relationships between groups. Defense and safety trumped surplus and hierarchy, and new alliances formed between groups such as the Waxhaws, Esaws,...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...shift is evidenced in our present moment by such organizations as Creative Time, the Public Art Fund, and Flux Projects. Based in New York, Creative Time states that it strives...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...Maria Carter Syphax, ca. 1870. Bottom, Charles Syphax (1791–1869) and William B. Syphax, ca. 1865. Daguerreotypes by unknown creator. Courtesy of Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial, ARHO 6408...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...Faulkner, Big Woods: The Hunting Stories (Originally published in New York: Random House, 1955; New York: Vintage International, 1994), [166]. As more dependable levees for the protection of croplands and...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
...of spatial perspectives into the study of nineteenth-century US health and economics history. Kennedy is the lead investigator of the New Orleans Mortality Project, and from 2012 to 2015 he...