Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...In Jacksonland, Inskeep offers the book-length equivalent of his op-ed. He narrates Cherokee Removal through the lives and careers of Jackson and Ross, presenting parallel biographies. He charts Jackson's rise from...
And the Prize Goes to...
Elizabeth Engelhardt. Photograph by Marsha Miller. Courtesy of the University of Texas. At the end of the Spring 2015 semester, seventeen students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel...
White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta
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Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...also a landscape of commerce that developed locally and largely eluded British control at the hands of merchants, traders, and boatmen. By the end of the American Revolution the old...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...subject’s glamour or moralizing over its ugliness, two common pitfalls for anyone writing about New Orleans. Maunsel White, Map 1814–1815 New Orleans, 1815. From Library of Congress Map Collections, 2007627049....
The Change
FOR THE SHARECROPPER I LEFT BEHIND IN '79 Thirteen years ago, before bulk barns and fifth gear diesel tractors, we rode royal blue tractors with tool boxes big enough ...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...persons with an annual income of $22,231 or less was eligible for free lunch; a student with an annual family income of $31,765 or less was eligible for reduced-price lunch....
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...both groups struggled for civil rights, pursuing courtroom strategies, exercising the franchise, and marching—and both achieved significant victories. Yet, "unification largely eluded these groups," argues Behnken. "Instead, two separate civil...
Writing Appalachia
...with an author and her or his craft. Johnstown, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, December 6, 2019. Photograph by Justin Hamel. © Justin Hamel. As our story of creating this anthology suggests,...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...time of archival research. The Library of Congress website lists both Halpert and Kennedy as "speakers" along with Hurston on various recordings from these sessions. Elsewhere Kennedy elaborates on the...