Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...writing excellent articles in the New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Nation, and elsewhere. Books like Border Contraband can help correct this myopia by reminding us that...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...an initial eagerness to identify precise locations for icebergs photographed for William Bradford's late nineteenth-century book, The Arctic Regions. Despite scientific aspects of Bradford's mission, he did not record exact...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...In Jacksonland, Inskeep offers the book-length equivalent of his op-ed. He narrates Cherokee Removal through the lives and careers of Jackson and Ross, presenting parallel biographies. He charts Jackson's rise from...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...an active artistic conversation that has spanned several years and multiple revisions and re-visionings, resulting in an interdisciplinary, multifaceted art performance work, and now a book."8Opal Moore, "Artist's Statement," in...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...with natural temperament. The greater part is nothing but an accident."1Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (Madison: Cricket House Books, 2010), 149. So it seems for Salafia: that the accident...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...the late 1960s he was part of a new generation of conservative political activists. His 1969 book The Emerging Republican Majority was a veritable blueprint for GOP politics. Phillips recognized...
Bricking the Church
...and as its doctrine softens puts on a hard shell for weathering this world. Acknowledgments "Bricking the Church" from Robert Morgan's book Groundwork (Gnomon Press, 1979) appears here by permission of...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...reissued his book American Photographs (1939) in 1962 and mounted a retrospective and a published catalog in 1971. Eggleston worked through and against this legacy, bringing pop-art color and drama,...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...Family (Sarabande 2002). She is completing a third book of poetry and her first book of collected fiction. Cover Image Attribution Horton Mill Covered Bridge Over Black Warrior River, February...
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
...Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World, and many other books. For his work, he has received the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, the American...