"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...provocative assessments of the many mitigating circumstances that made this borderland far more than "a mere matter of latitude and longitude." It's a complex and sophisticated portrayal of unique southern...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...Press, 2015); Gabrielle Hecht, Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2012); Joseph Masco, The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New...
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Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...narrator apologizes, "I should certainly omit such expressions as this, could I do so with historic fidelity." By 1853, Joseph Glover Baldwin presented in Flush Times in Alabama and Mississippi...
The Bulletin—June 12, 2012
...author agreements, which "leave copyright with the authors and explicitly permit authors to deposit in open-access repositories and post on personal or departmental Web sites the versions of their manuscripts...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...for slaves in the Deep South, slaves became more likely to run away. Border slave-owners and slaves made bargains that mitigated the mutual threats of southward sale and northward escape....
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...change. They may admit change was just, but believe it has affected them negatively. South African ranchers were hard-working and prosperous families who have lost political power in the South...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
African American Suburbanization Part 2: Dr. Wiese traces how Black suburbs faced intensified segregation and isolation from the post-WWII period through the 1960s Part 3: Dr. Wiese discusses how Black neighborhoods grew...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...Bruno Latour, Tim Mitchell—or a thousand ecologists—the guilty recognition that we have the power to shatter our own universe is exactly the tragic recognition—a true anagnorisis—that we need to embrace;...
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...from Johns Hopkins University, and Nat Fuller's Feast: The Life and Legacy of an Enslaved Cook in Charleston by David Shields from the University of South Carolina and Kevin Mitchell...