Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...its original context, that of the Atlantic World. Later continental ambitions, encapsulated in the term "Manifest Destiny" have produced a distorting lens for the understanding of early America. The use...
Transcript: Interview with Precious Bryant
...you know, started learning how. Now, I used to play a lot; I’d take my guitar to school when I was goin’ to school, and we used to have talent...
Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor
Readings Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "The Change." Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Off Season." Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Packin' Four Corner Nabs." Poem text....
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...a school teacher, and I often wondered how they were managing with three children. The house was lost to foreclosure, and they were forced to get out, and I mean...
Monkey Puzzle
Video Monkey Puzzle, 2008....
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
Blog Post I recently bought a crumbling old house in a historically gay neighborhood in Roanoke, Virginia. I met my ex-lover in this house five years ago. At the time...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...the 1827 Cherokee Constitution. Ross then became chief executive of that government in 1828, the same year Jackson won the White House. Some Account of Some Bloody Deeds of General...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...p.m. - Arrive at the farm house of Barney Hester, 2932 Hester Town Road. (This is where the altercation occurred leading to the arrest of Roger Malcom, Sunday, July 14, 1946.) 5...
Residues of Border Control
...conceal the marks of their crossing. They carry a dry set of clothes in a sealed plastic bag, sometimes found empty and tied to the tires used as flotation devices....
Substantiation
...courthouse windows where the sheriff shuffles cards for a blind man and the defense team. At a levee camp that night he asks for whiskey and she gives him a...