Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
.... . that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events . . . The Almighty...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...Sacred Harp singing with particular places and time periods. P. Dan Brittain—a teacher at Camp Fasola Europe from Harrison, Arkansas who began singing Sacred Harp in 1970 as a military...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
...for a number of months at Arlington House, explained that visitors sometimes took her aside to ask in hushed tones, "Were there really slaves here?" She also observed that some...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...experience among ex-convicts also limits the acquisition of basic skills for the workplace, such as reliability, sociability, motivation and effective communication. More timely, structured, and intense interventional programs that emphasize...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...grounds — is still imbued, however faintly, with the lives of those who came and went there. The 2007 release of Flannery O'Connor's letters to longtime personal friend and intellectual...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of “equal protection of the laws.” By that time, however, local and state funding had enabled the rapid growth of private schools—schools that were segregated, often...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...hire were one-time deals: interstate transactions did not preclude local sales, and slaves might be hired out one season and sold across state lines the next. Moreover, for many enslaved...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...Elmendorf, Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos, and Christopher S. Warshaw In Support of Appellees/Respondents, Merrill v. Milligan, July 18, 2022, 7–8, https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21-1086/230239/20220718132621523_91539%20HARVARD%20BRIEF%20PROOF3.pdf. The brief notes that these numbers do not include settlements....
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
Review In May 2015, journalist Steve Inskeep wrote an op-ed for the New York Times arguing that nineteenth-century Cherokee leader John Ross should be featured on the opposite side of...
Editors
...Divide, a New York Times Bestseller, Washington Post Notable Book of 2016, and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner. She is also the author of Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African...