The Border South
...the secession crisis his administration faced upon taking office. He famously observed that "to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game" and considered its neutrality,...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...spent her most productive years at Andalusia. The quiet hours of the morning (specifically, from nine to noon) were devoted, with militant discipline, to writing. Neither O'Connor's mother nor the...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
"The Nation and the Negro," The Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, February, 2013. Photograph by Paige Knight. Courtesy of Pellom McDaniels III and Paige Knight. "The Nation and the Negro"...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...words that devalue, denigrate, or privilege one discipline at the disadvantage or expense of another An aggressive support of excellence in the production of writing and performance that is creative,...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...rural communities, women's friendships were largely influenced by kinship networks. One's closest neighbors were likely to include relatives and in-laws of various degrees. Mary and Nannie would have had frequent...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...and the ways that national and state medical and political authorities excluded South Texas using quarantine to create a medicalized border zone. Later, Fevered Measures expands on this theme through...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...through screen door - McClellanville, South Carolina” in The Americans. During the discussion of this iconic image, one of John’s students from nearby St. Stephens offered to introduce us to...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...the University of Virgina has compiled runaway slave advertisements from 18th-century Virginia newspapers. One of the most comprehensive sources of information about runaway slaves and their journeys comes from the...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...nonracial rationale, the vast majority of the South’s private schools had become religion-based and remained nearly entirely segregated.2Ironically, the Court’s decision in Espinoza removes one of the few restrictions that...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...Forced Migration is riddled with tension, confusion, qualification, and a host of new questions: How does one distinguish between residents and newcomers if everyone is, has been, or soon will be...