The Border South
...The raid was plotted and staged from just across the Mason Dixon Line in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. His attempt to provoke a slave insurrection carried him just twenty some miles over...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...does the narrator's account of the interior: He went into the house, pausing in the hall only long enough to see his pale broken face glare at him for an...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...24, 2015, Atlanta, Georgia. Transcription by author. This first post shares McDaniels's vision of a multi-vocal conversation; between artifact and natural resource, between history and present-day, between historian and community,...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...expand in academic disciplines beyond the boundaries of their origins set some fifty years ago as black studies, to extend beyond courses in literature, history, and the social sciences and...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...the highest total for any room. The "furniture in parlor" was the next highest, at $70; the "content/s in kitchen," $60; and three bedrooms at $50.00 each. The parlor may...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...lived in the United States for most of his life, mainly in Chicago and Charleston, South Carolina, where he taught history for thirty-four years at the College of Charleston. His...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...Mckiernan-González's impressive work Fevered Measures reminds us that the intertwining connections of race, health, and exclusion have a long history in the United States. Mckiernan-González, an assistant professor of history at the...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...Landing, and Jeremy Creek in McClellanville, the Deer Head Oak, River Road near M&M Garage, Lincoln High School, and Thompson Hill Playground in Awendaw. A fraternal organization of approximately forty...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...1840. With its comprehensive focus, the project is a useful resource for scholars and students interested in the history of slavery and resistance. In addition to scanned advertisements, the database...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...the annual state funding of public schools in thirteen of the nation’s fifty states. And in January, decrying “failing government schools,” President Trump renewed his support for US Secretary of...