"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...a result, they viewed their borderland as a reasonable and rational alternative to the growing sectional conflict elsewhere in the country" (14). Because the span of racial ideologies exhibited by...
Whiskey and Geography
Shooting Creek Making Whiskey in the Backcountry Whiskey making, while rare in southern England, was highly developed in both Scotland and Ireland by the time of the Ulster emigration. We...
Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
Presentation Part 2: Nunn discusses how Rodgers’ music was appropriated and recontextualized in South Africa and Kenya in the 1930’s and 1940’s Part 3: Erich Nunn, Selected questions and answers About the...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...France during World War I, and was frequently asked by French officials for her name and birthplace; she found watching them try to imagine how to write and spell "Allegheny,...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...Brick by Brick As Lorainne Hansberry writes in 1959’s A Raisin in the Sun, "we have decided to move into our house because my father—my father—he earned it for us...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
Video About the Speaker Born in 1933 to Irish immigrant parents, Constance Curry grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina. She graduated from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, where she...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...Steamboat Natchez, and grassy Woldenberg Park. Sitting here on a blanket on a sunny April afternoon during French Quarter Fest, it would be easy to miss that only forty years...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...to demand the return of her slaves, who to her mind are illegally confiscated property. Simms’s setting in the South Carolina countryside, visualized as ravaged by the British forces, is...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...Path across Mississippi," Jackson [Mississippi] Clarion-Ledger, January 4, 2000, 1A. The paths tornadoes carve leave lasting marks across the Mississippi Hill Country. Residents bandage these reminders of destruction by rebuilding...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
African American Suburbanization Part 2: Dr. Wiese traces how Black suburbs faced intensified segregation and isolation from the post-WWII period through the 1960s Part 3: Dr. Wiese discusses how Black neighborhoods grew...