The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...cut see Mark Auslander, "Going by the Trees: Death and Regeneration in Georgia's Haunted Landscapes." "Ancient Mysteries, Modern Secrets," 2009. (Electronic Antiquity) A number of white Oxford residents spoke of...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...historian Hampton Dunn, who recognized the priceless value of the archive as a record of Tampa history. Dunn paid Cox $500 for an unspecified number of the negatives, some of...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...numbers and letters in each quadrant of the X, recorded coded information. Later, as I recalled my odyssey through drowned areas of the city, I kept returning to that visual...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...they had been terrorized into testifying falsely by the police.1Bob Herbert, "A Death in Destrehan," New York Times, February 1, 2007. Adam Turner, Gil Scott-Heron at the Regency Ballroom, San...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...Supreme Court called for re-argument of Dred Scott v. Sanford, leading to the majority opinion in March 1857, authored by Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, holding that persons of African...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...food and water. I endured the songs they sang for the dead. There was no one left who could tell them the stories of how their grandmothers had once turned...
St. Catherines Island Flyover
...island. In addition to ongoing environmental study, extensive archaeological research has occurred at St. Catherines with regard to Native American settlements, the Spanish mission of Santa Catalina de Guale, and...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...slaves were in fact other migrants who had established themselves over a number of years" (223). This admission leaves readers wondering what Pargas might have gleaned had he approached his...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...of democracy"—the extension of democratic ideals to a wide range of social relations. Oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico after a drilling rig exploded and sank off the coasts...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...city square, the two-thousand square foot brick sanctuary dates from the late nineteenth century. The wooden pews remain. The pastor’s study has become an office and a small annex off...