Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...in nearby Wellford. This gift was not named in Narcissa's will, so it may have been presented before the maker's death in 1881. History: The Parlor Mid-nineteenth-century homes included a...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...Many physicians rejected polygenesis and/or questioned the immunity of blacks to tropical diseases. Nearly all agreed, however, that black bodies responded differently to disease than white bodies. Both suffered from...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...University of Texas at Austin, examines several episodes of epidemic disease occurring among the towns lining the Texas-Mexican border across nearly a century. He argues that these medical emergencies expose...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) have launched the North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements project, a database of all known runaway slave ads in North Carolina newspapers between 1751 and...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...topics covered when histories of America's recent past are written and discussed. To a large extent, first drafts of our national COVID-19 history have been assembled, produced in near real-time...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...circa 1970s. Courtesy of SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University. Among the SCLC staffers represented in the collection is Fred Taylor, who worked for the organization for nearly forty years with...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...scenes of troubling revolution. Near its end, Swallow Barn tells the story of the rebellious slave Ned. After a long period of incorrigible behavior, he finally becomes a loyal defender...
In Memory Hill Cemetery
...Greek revival graves near the center toward the back of the cemetery, through the light skinned white-Blacks on the near side of the cemetery road, a carriage's width I must...
Putting up Beans
...filled with great leaves of tobacco, green as beans. Though soon to be gold and brown cured. Now nowhere near Winston or Salems. Not even close to American Spirit. More...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...in modern-day Mississippi. Along the way, they faced the nearly impossible challenges of pleasing segregationist whites, asserting their own distinctiveness, and keeping black Mississippians at a distance. The 1827 Anthony...