Residues of Border Control
...found and photographed are often private and reveal the identity of border crossers. Some have actual identifying potential, as they contain the border crossers’ DNA. The portrayal of everyday objects...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...of traditional civil rights historiography rooted almost exclusively in southern states before the Watts riots, and Gadsden's focus on Delaware also stands alongside previous studies on border states, including Clarence...
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
...Historical Associations' Albert J. Beveridge Award, the National Book Award, and the 2004 Bruce Catton Prize of the Society of American Historians for lifetime achievement, among other awards and recognitions....
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...generation who came of age during Jim Crow. Reed writes with a purpose—not to chronicle his own pivotal events, hardships, or personal demons, nor to proclaim general truths. Instead, he...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...in poetry Part 6: Morgan discusses the tension between the particular and the universal Poems Terroir That quality that seems unique, as thriving from a special spot of soil, air flow...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...building served as a general medical-surgical hospital until it was closed in 1979. It contained operating rooms, wards for medical and surgical cases, a clinical laboratory, an x-ray department, an...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...Historical and Genealogical Magazine 50, no. 3 (1949): 115–26. For references to the carriage-making reputation of the town, see "Pendleton," The Historical Marker Database, accessed July 20, 2022, https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=9614. Local...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...levels of the local public schools. It also appears that we have been witnessing a long-term structural transformation of local economies in both rural and urban regions of the South,...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...rural legislators to support vouchers. It also camouflages the severe fiscal impact this scheme will have on routinely underfunded public schools after the special federal funds run out. The states...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...always falling was never snow, no kind of bird, pigeon or crow ... Which I think is also a beautiful poem because it allows his mother to be a person....