Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...the role of the United States in the world. The Slaveholding Crisis is certainly not the first book to pursue these influences; nevertheless, Paulus examines how each of these places,...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...its largest section to this groundbreaking author. But instead of putting Carson on a pedestal, where she often sits in public memory, Spears places her in context, showing how she...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...the lowest prices and selected with unusual care. His LADIES' DRESS GOODS are of the latest and best styles, and purchased with a view to economy, beauty, and elegance." Although...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...number of reported tornadoes in the state each year is twenty-five, with sixty-two the highest number reported in a single year, and five the fewest. The average number of tornado-related...
Residues of Border Control
...the United States." The quantification of the “success” of enforcement in number of immigrants deported and the imposition of detention quotas on immigration police also dehumanizes immigrants.4Spencer S. Hsu and...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...and Rare Book Library (MARBL) related to the Civil War and the Battle of Atlanta, which took place July 22, 1864. Designed to enrich people's understanding of Atlanta and its...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
The Border South
Defining the Border Anyone who has lived for a time in Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, or Maryland has heard their place of residence categorized as "not really the South." Sometimes, folks...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...theories. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Cream City Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Indiana Review, Passages North, Best of the Net 2023, Best Small Fictions 2023, and elsewhere. In 2021, the Georgia Writers Association...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...Potter asked them to leave, explaining, according to one local report, that "a negro poolroom is not the place for white men." A fight ensued, and Mitchell left the poolroom,...