"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...and the Making of a Nation (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010); and Helen C. Rountree, Pocahontas's People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia through Four Centuries (Norman: University...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...historians alike, the book sets a new standard in conveying richly descriptive information in a creative and evocative manner. Virginia Tech environmental historian Barbara Allen, author of Uneasy Alchemy: Citizens...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...Virginia, Yale University, and Columbia University, among many others, either held slaves directly, utilized slave labor in the building of their campuses, traded slaves as commodities, greatly supported the work...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...Shooting Confederate battle flags (otherwise known as the flag of the Army of Northern Virginia or the St. Andrew's Cross) have been closely associated with automobiles since the flag's mass...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...JSTOR, archive.org/details/jstor-659687. Bushnell Jr. created this map from an original held in the Virginia Historical Society archives. Map annotated by Southern Spaces. Second, Frontiers of Science also demands that we...
Dirty Little Story
Essay Map of Fish Trap Hollow and northeastern Mississippi, 2012. ©OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA. The visitors are from Virginia, a state that simply sounds clean. There are two young children and a...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...of a copy of a copy of blackface minstrel stereotypes. About the Author Grace Elizabeth Hale teaches cultural history and American Studies at the University of Virginia. She is the...
The Bulletin—October 18, 2012
...mountaintop removal mining operations in Kentucky and West Virginia arguing that "in Appalachia . . . the Clean Water Act is not being enforced." Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant announced today...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...the United States: Greetings from "The Lone Star State," a postcard commonly sold in Texas. Courtesy of Virginia Stuart-Taylor, The Well-Travelled Postcard. I'm skeptical of generalizing from Texas to broader...
Making History
All I know of the Spanish-American War is what Virginia boys, kept safe at college, etched into the mortar with their pencils so that leaning against a brick wall a...