A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...their city, he argues, the people making the choices were a mixture of Europeans, African and creole slaves, free blacks, and Native Americans. These groups lived together in New Orleans...
The Change
...make camp at Qualla Boundary and the Oconaluftee would be free of tourists and filled with snow and those of us who held out forever and had no...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...success that the black freedom struggle enjoyed in the 1960s and that Mexican Americans coveted" (10). Nevertheless, blacks and Mexican Americans forged stronger alliances during this period—even if sustained solidarity...
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective Part 2: Davis discusses connections between enslaved African labor, trans-Atlantic trade, and emerging anti-slavery movements Part 3: Davis discusses three major factors...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...of Race and Freedom, 1850–1910 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006), winner of The Errol Hill Award for Outstanding Scholarship on African American Performance from the American Society of Theatre Research; Jeff...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
...buildings with hand-stenciled and freehand advertising for local businesses. Such work suggests that small-business advertising can be a collective endeavor, relying on neighborhood talent and artistic vision. About the Photographer...
The State House Aflame 1833
...the purchase of his freedom from John Marlow. The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire, We don't need no water, let the motherfucker burn Published in Blood...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...mouth is silenced now and it is worth every damn year of this bloody war. How do you like it, hey?" (144–45). Sherman's men destroying railroad, Atlanta, Georgia, 1864. Photograph...
Leavenworth newspaper
...employed by the old ku-klux gangs of Georgia. He was severely chastised for a small offence by a crowd of white men. As soon as the facts came out a...
When the Border Crossed Me
...freedom to stay in place and their need to leave home to keep their farm alive. I was a beginning farmer hiring seasoned agriculturalists from another country to help make...