A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...lynching for the state (6). Discrimination sign, Dimmitt, Texas, 1949. Photograph by Russell Werner Lee. Courtesy of Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. If mobs...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...coverage when the record clearly showed otherwise? The answer is found in the most troubling part of Roberts' opinion, largely ignored outside of legal circles. In essence, the Court ruled...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983). About the Author William G. Thomas III is the John and Catherine Angle Chair in the Humanities and Professor...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...there is no reason why they should be permitted here. That would be the rule of the strong, not the rule of law." And finally: "Unlawful acts performed long enough...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam (Crown, 2001), Callaloo, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (Warner/Aspect, 2000), Indiana Review, The Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts...
Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor
...is currently an associate professor of English and holds the Paul & Clarice Kingston Reynolds Chair at University of Nebraska at Kearney. Her published books include Blood Run (2006), Off-Season City Pipe (2005), Rock, Ghost,...
Theories of Time and Space
Video Theories of Time and Space You can get there from here, though there’s no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you’ve never been. Try this: head south...
Elegy for the Native Guards
Poem Elegy for the Native Guards Now that the salt of their blood Stiffens the saltier oblivion of the sea . . . —Allen Tate We leave Gulfport at noon;...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...in point. What was missed or mismanaged in the run up to the pandemic and during its catastrophic course will, if left unexamined and uncorrected, lead to enormous suffering and...
Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...Brian Croxall, project manager and ECDS digital humanities strategist; and a presentation on the Civil War collections at Emory's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). Randy Gue, MARBL curator...