Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...these efforts failed, Ross led his people west and began the work of rebuilding the Cherokee Nation in Indian Territory. Ross and Jackson's stories are well-known, and Jacksonland offers little...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...sent over 750,000 slaves from the Upper South to the Deep South between 1830 and 1860.5Ira Berlin, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003),...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...acompaña desde entonces. La historia se repite A boat crowded with Cuban refugees arrives during the 1980 Mariel Boatlift, Key West, Floria, ca. 1980. Photograph by Robert L. Scheina. Courtesy...
View from giant sombrero, South of the Border, South Carolina, 2007
Elegy for the Native Guards
Poem Elegy for the Native Guards Now that the salt of their blood Stiffens the saltier oblivion of the sea . . . —Allen Tate We leave Gulfport at noon;...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...and places in the US South. These posts investigate the geographical, historical, and cultural study of real and imagined southern spaces through the lens of archival sources and materials and...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...engines that drove much of what made the southern economy unique in the decades between revolution and secession. What concerns Pargas in Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...antebellum Deep South during the cotton boom of the 1820s. The book's contributors argue that Louisiana's early history can only be understood by adopting an Atlantic perspective—one that considers its...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...treaty rights and tribal sovereignty. Dr. King telegraphed his support. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) endorsed the effort; the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the ACLU provided legal assistance.8Telegram...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...to the physical archives in Tallhassee, Florida. University of South Florida Digital Collections http://digital.lib.usf.edu/ By virtue of close proximity, the University of South Florida has, since its founding in 1956,...