The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...latest technology: Princess phones played recorded messages and elaborate electric maps traced troop movements. A Mercury space capsule proudly perched nearby, an incongruous and yet resonant symbol of the unified...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...into a great factory that would manufacture a powerful weapon and help win the greatest war mankind had ever known. Freeman expertly unpacks how the federal government, scientists, and engineers...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...One of Pulitano’s important contributions to our field in Toward a Native American Critical Theory is that she avoids simply affirming the greatness of all the tribal writers who she...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...school board policies, overall school performance, and "ostensibly unrelated" issues such as population growth and the Great Recession "brought about a change in public attitudes on school assignments" and a...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...his mind flooded with dozens of cases of FHA discrimination. For example, he observed that, since he moved to Elbert County in 1952, the number of black farmers fell from...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...devoted to ensuring that the names and relations of the makers would be remembered. The number of quilts and the care with which they were labeled suggests that she thought...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...preceding day's events, and the fact that in recent years this marker has, more than any other memorial on the grounds, compelled the greatest number of gifts. The gravestone desecration...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...the beginning of life and the West with its inevitable end, Smithers embeds Cherokees within a cosmological space that holds great promise as an interpretive entry into their past. Top,...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...and planets) and is often modeled on mytho-historical acts of mobility. The great cycles of Medieval passion and mystery plays sought to reenact (or to anticipate) for the faithful the...
"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...