Wichita newspaper
...been a higher civilization. A negro rapist has been mobbed in one of its oldest communities, burned at the stake, chained, kerosened and burned alive, in strict accordance with the...
Montgomery, Alabama images
Montgomery, Alabama: Intersection of Bibb and Commerce Streets Confederate Memorial, Alabama State Capitol Grounds The house in which Jefferson Davis and his family lived in is now preserved as "the...
"A DASTARDLY CRIME: A Negro Assaults' [sic] a Lady Near Ponce de Leon Springs."
"An outrageous assult was made upon a Miss Burdette, a maiden lady, whose father lives near Ponce de Leon, on the outer end of West Peachtree street. "She had been...
Piedmont Blues
...other artists—in this sense, he was a synthesizer of styles, parallel in many ways to Robert Johnson." Also similar to Johnson, Fuller lived the hard blues life, dying at the...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...will hear, float down this river, sting the skin of slaves? I am the one who cries the music of God, and Tuscaloosa is mine. He cannot live past my...
Excerpt from Eudora Welty's "Where is the Voice Coming From?" (1963)
...I'm alive and you ain't. We ain't never now, never going to be equals and you know why? One of us is dead." (Collected Stories, 604) Published: 11...
I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees
...of our grandmothers who are pierced, and probably do not want to hear about Thomas Hardy, who, if I remember, has been dead longer than they have been alive, And...
Frank Willis
...called "civic," the things you had to know. Today in some way I somehow care that Frank Willis lives with his mother, without employ, was arrested for stealing a $12...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...spatial and demographic shift: like Jane Landers's Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions, Kathleen DuVal's Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution, and Alejandra Dubcovsky's Informed...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
Review Historians Ethan J. Kytle and Blain Roberts, professors at California State University, Fresno, have produced a brilliantly written and thoroughly engaging place-based exploration of competing narratives of racial enslavement....