The Border South
...it turns out, stood right on the border on the Ohio River: Jefferson County with over 10,000 enslaved persons. The Border, however, was also home to the largest numbers of...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...Flannery O'Connor Charitable Trust. All rights reserved. Available through Emory's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Later, she exclaims: "Boy are we sick of Great Lady Guests!" (12 Nov 1960)....
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...housed in the Robert Langmuir African American Photograph Collection in Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. In addition to these archival materials, Dr. Pellom McDaniels III describes the...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
Welcoming Comment from Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey, Welcoming Comment, 2014. About the Speaker Natasha Trethewey is a Pulitzer-Prize winning poet (Native Guard, Mariner Books, 2006) and former poet laureate of...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...stand for bric-a-brac," a marble-topped mahogany table, two large upholstered rosewood sofas, two large chairs and five smaller chairs covered in the same material, and unspecified bric-a-brac. In contrast, the...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...they had never lived in the South, lacked the needed expertise and experience. Weiner's most innovative chapters, although drawn from limited sources, look at everyday attitudes towards disease. Laypeople of...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...showing the locations of Brownsville, Laredo, and Eagle Pass, 1882. Courtesy of Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, catalog number 98688791. Fevered Measures surveys smallpox and yellow fever epidemics...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...construction of bridges across the Santee River to the north and the Cooper River to Charleston in the 1920s. Today, the town’s largely white population numbers around 450. Conversely, the...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) have launched the North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements project, a database of all known runaway slave ads in North Carolina newspapers between 1751 and...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...schooling and, more broadly, in overturning Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 landmark opinion that promised the end of racial segregation in public education. The Court ruled in Espinoza...