The Change
...their slaves they brought from Africa when they sold our ancestors as slaves in the Middle East, that then the tobacco was sacred to all of us and we prayed...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker S. Wright Kennedy is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Rice University. His primary area of interest is the integration...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...from the mid-nineteenth century by artists from America, Africa, and the Caribbean,"5"About Us," Hammonds House Museum. http://www.hammondshouse.org/about-us.html. Sipp draws inspiration from Gallery 72’s design and history. Though the gallery's glass walls...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...is worth noting at the outset that the broader trope to which Ms. Williams alluded has a long and rich history in North America: for centuries, many have wryly juxtaposed...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...lowlands. In contrast, blacks were viewed as admirably adapted for it by providential design or the experience of living in Africa for millennia. Place—climate and landscape—was crucial to comprehending southern...
Image Credits
...Davis / Just Out. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. "In Memory of all Puerto Ricans," panel from the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt Display, Organization of American States Art Museum of the...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...medications being held by Ivy League schools. These make millions from the same pharmaceutical companies that are essentially committing genocide in Africa by refusing to sell drugs at an affordable...
Little Rock, Arkansas images
...the twenty-four-story Bank of America Building (right background). Lunch Hour Office workers walk along Little Rock's West Markham Street. Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton and...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
Essay The tours that I lead at Arlington National Cemetery begin here. We are standing in Section 27, a location in the northeastern corner of the cemetery bordered by the...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...The fourth section observes how Miami's LGBTQ past extended far beyond the city's borders. It's a story with deep roots in parts of the Caribbean and Latin America and must...