Finding Media
...few favorite sites and search strategies for finding useable media: Public Domain and US Government works: The term "public domain" can be a little tricky—there are a number of caveats...
In Memory Hill Cemetery
...have a Polaroid Land Camera 340, old as me purchased in the early seventies, inherited from great uncle Phineas. It works but every photograph is a ritual — no auto...
Nigger Street 1937
...late-staying patrons early in country churches on Sunday mornings and in church the red of the edge of white pages in a black bound bible coming together ...
New Orleans, Louisiana images
New Orleans, Louisiana: Intersection of St. Louis and Royal, French Quarter Signs of the tourist trade are evident in the French Quarter, even in the early morning hours. College Boys,...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...efforts to trace the counter-narrative's lineage. Celebration of Emancipation Day, Charleston, South Carolina, January 8, 1877. Sketch by Harry Ogden. Originally published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, February 3, 1877....
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...rights as US citizens. In an early example of non-violent protest that would characterize later civil rights efforts to desegregate the classroom, Mexican families withheld the names of their school-age...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...by the generic appellation of Blacks." The full text of the 1805 Constitution can be found at Bob Corbett, ed., "The 1805 Constitution of Haiti," Haiti, accessed February 4, 2014,...
Birth Right
...and Children First. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. Midwifery advocates argue that many of these interventions carry high risks and complications that may not be clearly communicated to patients. Women...
Winslow Homer and the American Civil War
...A former Rhodes scholar and Guggenheim Fellow, he is the author of several books on early American slavery, including Black Majority, published by Knopf in 1974, and Strange New Land,...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...June 2009, “more than eight million Americans lost their jobs, nearly four million were foreclosed each year, and 2.5 million businesses were shuttered.”1Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, “The Great Recession: Over but...