A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...inaugural edition of The Reviewer wrote evocatively of the rise of a Richmond literary scene: "And all around Richmond move the ghosts of battles long ago. . . Action and...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...decades of memories. In Chicago, for example, longtime residents Deverra Beverly and Beatrice Jones, who feared their presence would be forever erased, supported the establishment of the National Public Housing...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...his long pilgrimage out of the depression-wracked Deep South, died Monday, June 3, 2013, in Nashville from complications following a stroke. He was eighty-eight. His career-long commitment to the biblically-remembered...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...sectional crisis came to a head in 1861, the Ohio River Valley did not prove to be the seam along which the nation split. A long established shared sense of...
Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry
Presentation About the Author John Howard is Emeritus Professor of Arts and Humanities at King's College London. He is interested in the historical production of human differences and their attendant...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...the nave now houses documents, memorabilia, and artifacts relating to the trials. Punctuated by train whistles and the noise of freight cars rolling past—along the same route that carried the...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...construction of bridges across the Santee River to the north and the Cooper River to Charleston in the 1920s. Today, the town’s largely white population numbers around 450. Conversely, the...
The Chesapeake Bay
...they were not conservationists. They cleared lands and moved as necessary, their low numbers making little impact on the available resources (with the significant exception of white-tail deer which Indians...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...of Confederate technology, designed to break the US Navy's blockade of Charleston Harbor. The Hunley was an "underwater machine" consisting of a forty-foot-long refitted boiler (forty-eight inches in diameter) in...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...artwork, which included ebony and mahogany carvings along with cement statues.2John Biggers, typescript draft of travel diary, July 4, 1957, John Biggers Papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library, Emory...