Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...the plaque a few weeks later. Sometimes, the very existence of places requires memory. And, ironically, the city's economic future may depend on acknowledging this racially violent past, says Betsy...
Murray Mountain, North Carolina
...not safe. So we're the first to agree that it needed to be built. Generally speaking, I think, it will be better as far as commuting for traffic, but the...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
...was president of the student body, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and an active member of the National Student Association. After studying in France (1955-1956) as a Fulbright scholar...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...and culturally diverse, and geographically vast territories into some facsimile of that model. A better approach is to aim for "deep time, cross-cultural, environmental histories of places—and after a sufficient...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...they are often given few opportunities to better understand its complicated past. Cuban refugees aboard the Captain Preston who came to the United States during the Mariel Boatlift, Miami, Florida,...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker S. Wright Kennedy is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Rice University. His primary area of interest is the integration...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...religion, and gender leadership styles of reconciliation. We hoped the summer's experiences would bring us better understanding of our societies, with an awareness of common and distinctive factors affecting the...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...status and—even better—bestsellerdom, Stein had spent three decades searching for a form and a format in which to present her writing that might help readers beyond her tiny coterie of...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...had "betrayed the very name of Jesus." Kesicki offered a sweeping apology, confessed the sin of enslavement, and sought "on bended knee" forgiveness for the Jesuits' entire participation in slavery....
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...Voting Rights Act, Justice Kegan's dissent suggests she knows law better than history. She mentions "a march from Selma to Birmingham." It was in fact the Selma to Montgomery march...