Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...preoccupation with sensory order and decorum was particularly intense in a city such as Charleston, South Carolina, built on slavery, where every social relation exhibited gradations of command and obedience....
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...'60s and early '70s in Alfred McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Central America, Colombia (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2003), 387–460....
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...to national and transnational trade: "It has always been exceedingly difficult to ascertain the exact number of slaves in the Southern states; the usual estimate is about four and a...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...weaving an archaeological and material analysis with sociological theory into a carefully crafted historical narrative. Catawba deerskin map given to colonial govenor Francis Nicholson in 1721. Photograph of original map...
The Bulletin—April 3, 2013
...of racial and ethnic minorities; Middle Atlanta is split along ethnic and ideological lines; while North Side voters are more conservative and are generally white. The blog "Blogging While Blue: News...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...GeoBrowse tool allows visitors to browse documents in the collection by geographical location. Beyond the political and legal challenges, the actual construction of the Parkway proved difficult at best and...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...Saul. The oral histories in the NOLA Hip-hop Archive all engage with the specifics of local geographies, many of which are now forever altered post-Katrina. Former No Limit recording artist...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...5, viii. In Bennett's sense, Kara Walker's creation is representative of slavery, but also of our generalized excess and hyperconsumption, in which organic and inorganic (human, animal, metal, and meteorological)...
Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
...spending the 2012–2013 academic year as a postdoctoral fellow at The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University. This presentation is drawn from his book project, Sounding...
Seneca Quarry
1823 Seneca Quarry workmen payroll. 1823 payroll. National Archives & Records Administration, Records Group 42: Records of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, 1790–1992....