Alabama Jack's, Key Largo, Florida, 2009
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...or too infirm to labor. By January 1864, dwellings had been constructed along with a church, hospital, and home for the aged—all aligned on well laid-out streets with a park...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...Highway A1A. A central public plaza was part of the colonial city plan, in accordance with King Phillip II's Spanish Royal Ordinance of 1573 mandating an official plan for all...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...ignited by lightning and ammunition are allowed to burn and contribute to the natural reproductive cycle of the forest. Longleaf also features the stories of individuals and organizations striving to...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...addition to the father of Francis Tinney, the 1850 Federal census lists several initially plausible candidates in the District of Columbia and Maryland for "William Teney," some or all of...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...global perspective in "Beyond 'Déjà vu All Over Again?' Women's Work in the Global Economy," Journal of Women's History 19, no. 3 (October 2007), 222–31. Historical Perspectives on the Global...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...tourism we witness white imaginations marshalling the language of gothic storytelling—psychological terror, philosophical darkness, moral ambiguity—while evading its racial and political implications. Such works often focus on the theatrical nature...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
... Landscape is an "accumulation," an accrual of the social and material changes of its inhabitants as well as geographical changes and accretions.7D. W. Meinig, ed., The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes:...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...human sources but, rather, as more ethereal and "spiritual" traces. This interpretation allowed him to see his documentary work not as cultural theft but as a cultural gift to audiences...
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...