North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...about runaway slaves. While most databases do not yet provide features like transcripts, there are a number of useful tools available for researchers and students. UNCG has created the Digital...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...no misunderstanding about what this case means in regard to religion: states are now free to finance private schools that discriminate against students on the basis of students’ religions. As...
Residues of Border Control
...Forgotten: An Archeology of Early American Life When the objects found at the border are re-photographed in the artist’s studio their narratives are complicated by a new frame suggesting that...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...compare interstate and intrastate migrants with urban hires? A Slave-Coffle passing the Capitol, ca. 1815. Illustration by unknown artist. Originally published in Cullen and Howard's Popular History of the United...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...might enter into dialogue. There are many unresolved legacies to work through, including the status of the Creek Freedmen, who are denied basic rights of tribal citizenship. Creek scholar and...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...interest are."16Sheldon Ungar, "Ignorance as an Under-Identified Social Problem," British Journal of Sociology 59, no. 2 (2008): 301–326. As a result, America's COVID-19 lessons, including those that are forthcoming, are...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...Americas. Some half-million enslaved arrived at forty-one documented sites in the United States. At these arrival ports a significant portion of American history began. Relying principally upon information from Voyages:...
Writing Appalachia
...What you are now holding in your hands, or accessing through an electronic device, is the result of our efforts to assemble that book. We are especially aware of the...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...and exploited who are likely to suffer the most, and the rich and powerful who benefit from the status quo.4Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos, A...
Bodies and Souls
...to Kill one year later. The mayoral race ended in threats of a riot. One year later, a race riot was the climactic scene in A Time to Kill, which...