Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...Wilson's Patriotic Gore (1962), studies of the literature of the Civil War have paid far more attention to the North. Hutchison seeks to rescue the Confederacy's literature—its poems, songs, literary...
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
...and comparatively small furniture. The light is pale on the clay-colored walls (newly painted in 1959); the floorboards creak underfoot. Most things are just as O'Connor and her mother, Regina,...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...III and Paige Knight. Detail of stereograph. Photograph by Paige Knight. Courtesy of Pellom McDaniels III and Paige Knight. The staged image includes a passbook from the New Orleans Gas Works...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...for having done so. Finally, we invite you to join us auditors for our two keynote speakers and to visit the panel presentations and join in the discussions, which are...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...detailed, and the parlor and sitting room furnishings demonstrate the difference in the traditional functions of these rooms. The furniture in the parlor included a square rosewood piano, a "mahogany...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...diseases. Scientific support for such views came in part from northern comparative anatomists such as Louis Agassiz and Samuel George Morton. Agassiz was popular in the South for being an...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...Travelers Car Club as the parade passed our studio. We were struck by the vibrancy of the club and the parade's manifestation of the parallel black and white worlds within...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...or geographic origin. As Michael Gomez notes in Exhanging Our Country Marks (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1998), it is notoriously difficult to track the geographical origins of enslaved peoples, as...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...of the segregationists’ fight against Brown and in how the federal courts addressed their strategies—that the long-range impact of Espinoza becomes evident. In the years following Brown, southern states passed...