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...
Residues of Border Control
...Population” Migration Policy Institute Data Hub (Migration Policy Institute, 2011). The Pew Hispanic Center 2010 census tabulations of growth in Hispanic population (i.e., not necessarily foreign born) show that South...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...from place to place. Pargas divides the nation's enslaved population into three major groups—interstate migrants, intrastate migrants, and those who were hired to urban employers. These categories frame his argument...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...seized, beat him, strung him up, and left his body dangling over the water, not allowing anyone to cut him down until his corpse had dried. As the story was...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...topics covered when histories of America's recent past are written and discussed. To a large extent, first drafts of our national COVID-19 history have been assembled, produced in near real-time...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...and European religious traditions with current and historical ties to the site as well as a detailed recounting of the history of enslavement in the specific locale. The installation of...
Writing Appalachia
...succinctly: "the mountaineer, [and] his struggles with himself, nature, and the outside world."12Robert J. Higgs and Ambrose Manning, Voices from the Hills: Selected Readings of Southern Appalachia (1975), xvii. While...