The Chesapeake Bay
...they were not conservationists. They cleared lands and moved as necessary, their low numbers making little impact on the available resources (with the significant exception of white-tail deer which Indians...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...January 25, 1904). Many African American women who pursued careers in teaching earned respect and status for providing a critical service to a community in dire need. And working wives...
Brushes with War
...Oil on Canvas by Winslow Homer. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number 22.207. Edging past Homer's iconic sniper, visitors to the DC venue had plenty to see—a display of sixty...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
...for a number of months at Arlington House, explained that visitors sometimes took her aside to ask in hushed tones, "Were there really slaves here?" She also observed that some...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...she is incarcerated, the recommendations of the parole board, or the number of open beds at the local re-entry facility. 92% of prisoners in Alabama are male, so most of...
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...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...long career, she never "took her hand off the plow" of social justice, and once her course was set, she did not look back. Interviews with a number of activists...
The State House Aflame 1833
...Sam and his issue yet know. The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire, We don't need no water… We cannot pass in silence over the exemplary conduct of...
Excerpt from Saints at the River
...darkness and as she rises her head scrapes against a rock ceiling and all is black and silent and she tells herself don't breathe but the need grows inside her...
At Liberty (1964)
Louis Allen, 31 January 1964, Liberty, Mississippi The morning train is turning like a compass needle now the night has folded all its schedules in the stands of pine...