Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...in a clear and balanced way, among them the introduction of rice culture to the Carolinas. One group of scholars argues that African slaves imported to the Lowcountry had prior...
Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
Introduction Thomas Mullen is the author of four novels, including The Last Town On Earth (2006), which received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize and was recognized by USA Today as...
1108 Dynamite Hill
Video https://player.vimeo.com/video/652096254?h=527be50265& Essay Jeff Drew, born in 1951, is a lifelong resident of Birmingham, Alabama's North Smithfield neighborhood. In 2013, following the fiftieth anniversary commemoration of the Birmingham campaign of...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...by that upheaval and diversity. What is "southern studies" today, well into the twenty-first century, in the age of the global-superpower United States? Whatever it is, we think it is...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...that the affliction targeted strangers to tropical climates, hence its moniker as a "strangers' disease," and, second, the erroneous assumption that individuals of African descent carried an inherent racial immunity.15Margaret...
Editors
...Video Producer Emory Center for Digital Scholarship Emory University Editorial Board Carol Anderson Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies Department of African American Studies Emory University 550 Asbury...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...in terms of community building, a case that is especially evident if one watches presidential debates. Both the Republicans and Democrats will claim their guy won, often based on competing...
Crespino's Strom Thurmond: The Last Jim Crow Demagogue and the First Sunbelt Conservative
...moderate stance would probably lead him to be run-out of the current Republican Party. Finally, Crespino addresses the controversial topic of Thurmond's African American daughter. Emory University, Expert Conversations on Strom Thurmond, 2012....
Grave of James D. Lynch, Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Mississippi, 2012
Tom Rankin, Grave of James D. Lynch, Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Mississippi, 2012. James D. Lynch (1839–1872) was the first African American to serve as the Secretary of State of Mississippi. Born...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...“contrabands,” enslaved African Americans who crossed into the federal lines, 1862. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia. Homes Broadside, 1873. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia. The exhibit reveals...