Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...Inskeep further suggests that removal was novel in the late 1820s, rather than an approach to Indian relations that dated to the beginning of the century. With his focus largely...
And the Prize Goes to...
...studies. Finally, the class noted Delerme's combination of tools from linguistics and sonic studies that opened up her subjects in ways that left them wanting to learn more. One student...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...Ozarks was so poor to begin with that they scarcely noticed. No, that's not right, because poverty’s so relative. A better way to put it is that folks in the...
Seneca Quarry
...slaves) hasn't surfaced, the evidence points in that direction. I might add that slaves almost certainly did work at the Seneca quarry on an earlier project in 1823, either for...
White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta
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"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...autonomous. Slaves devised their own family structures, an African American culture, and methods of resistance free from owners' influence. For these scholars, what defined the slave community was autonomy and...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...and create ways to live in a particular place, a process that included imagination and adaptation as well as habitation. Paulett finds that the geography of place varied with those...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...I don't think that's attributable to the fact that it is so much clearer now that we need this [Act]. I think it is attributable, very likely attributable, to a...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...region’s shift away from cash crop monoculture in the eighteenth century actually consisted of and what that change’s consequences were for slaves in New Orleans. He then chronicles the reemergence...
The World of Chick-Fil-A and the Business of Sunbelt Evangelicalism
Presentation Part 2: Grem discusses conservative evangelical organizations and the rise of Christian small business in the twentieth century Part 3: S. Truett Cathy, evangelical and corporate America, Sunbelt politics, and...