Reckoning with Enslavement
...the legitimacy of slavery in American law. Together they counted among the most significant freedom suits in U.S. history. And there were hundreds of others. Yet their particular stories would...
My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetery
...by her own design removed, is buried in the corner, outermost plot, with no one near, her married name the only sign she belongs. And at that, she could be...
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...basic design unit of a square from which a quarter circle appears to have been removed and replaced with a contrasting fabric. The particular pattern name, "Save All," and the...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...1850s, slaveholders in Washington used foreign policy to support this worldview. Free trade with Great Britain, penetration of slave-grown commodities in markets across the globe, and significant changes in the...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...at any major US university to recruit significant numbers of African Americans in a given signing class. Bell enjoyed an illustrious career at Minnesota, winning a national championship in 1960...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...written in the style of the emerging genre of the personal essay. The book would have an elegance of design and layout. We hoped that it would lift the literary...
Welcome!
...our website, updated our audio and video, and significantly expanded our readership. As an online journal working at the intersection of a number of scholarly disciplines, we find ourselves in...
Bodies and Souls
...Before Sister Manette took on the clinic, there had been no healthcare available in Jonestown for 15 years. Jonestown, Mississippi Welcome Sign, November 4, 2011. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user chillin662....
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...in the appointment under his mother's maiden name, for Ulysses S[impson]. Grant. The name was never corrected, and Grant signed himself 'U. S. Grant,' though he never used 'Simpson'" (Ulla...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...Continuing bitterness is not far from the surface. One man carried a sign, initials only — KAI. A Northern Ireland student told us that meant "Kill All Irish." The next...