"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
Review The Ohio River figures prominently in what are arguably the three most significant novels of American slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Toni Morrison's Beloved both feature...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...written in the style of the emerging genre of the personal essay. The book would have an elegance of design and layout. We hoped that it would lift the literary...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...Prints and Photographs division, LC-DIG-pga-03338. As a condition of voting or holding office, whites in the post-Civil War South were initially required to sign oaths affirming that they had...
Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...light. Project members drew on Pollock's research to pinpoint twelve significant areas—most now unrecognizable due to the city's growth—and created a GPS-guided tour enhanced with information and images gathered from...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...or self-styled bohemians not only signaled a historical break in New Orleans, it mirrored transformations in modern port cities all over the globe. Ever since humankind began sending bulk goods...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...for immigrants from Mexico who have come to live, work, and die in the United States (in quite significant numbers even in military service, to which the American establishment readily...
New Shades o'Death Creek
...before they bought people out they made everyone sign a deed saying they would never live in this county again, not for the rest of their natural lives. John said...
Bodies and Souls
...Before Sister Manette took on the clinic, there had been no healthcare available in Jonestown for 15 years. Jonestown, Mississippi Welcome Sign, November 4, 2011. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user chillin662....
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...terror served to enforce legalized segregation and disenfranchisement and lynching stood as the most visible and brutal signifier of Jim Crow apartheid. For these reasons, when historians began writing the history...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
"Log Cabin design. Pieced by grandma Snoddy at home. Mother carried it when she went to housekeeping. Made before Mother married." History: The Log Cabin pattern first developed in...