Rent
There were five houses over twenty years. We lived almost a decade in one, a mild, shallow winter in another. We bartered work for rent in the last, the one...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...liberal reputation, blacks lived under stifling restrictions. Whites in El Paso limited Blacks to certain areas, such as the second ward neighborhood near downtown. This could be done in subtle...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...is one of the most striking images from What Must Be Remembered in its visual representation of the lived experience of the international slave trade and its depiction of slavery as...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...territory (including the farm in Hestertown where relatives of the stabbed white farmer still lived). Nick, a local organizer, added, "Well, the Klan just loves their motorcades, hooting and hollering...
The Bulletin—July 2, 2013
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...of African Americans in the US South. Much like West Africans who were grappling with the inheritances of colonialism, African Americans lived daily with the reality of being both African...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
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Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
...the cross-Atlantic musical exchange, this documentary includes reflections of the original documentarians about the relationships of geography, culture (especially music), and economy to the lives and livelihoods of Welsh and...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...the Delta. . . where I am the fifth generation to live here,” Clay writes, “allowed me to view the endemic and ordinary landscape as a disappearing way of life.”3"Delta...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...not know how Lonesome, Desperate, or Resigned some early oystermen and women were, we glimpsed stories of families and lives memorialized by names. From the restoration of narratives came a...