Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
Blog Post Camille Goldmon, editorial associate: I'm rereading Patricia Sullivan's Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era. It's a monograph on liberal New Dealers and their...
Junction City newspaper
...and pitch-forks. In all cases, the dose, if taken, produces wry faces. The strongest republican [sic] journals, like the Atchison Champion, are protesting against the new comers, arguing lustily that...
Belle plaine newspaper
Belle Plaine News. "Shot a Negro." June 8, 1911 "Being arrested for killing a 'nigger' was no doubt a surprise to Mr. Abbott, who, reports have it, has killed other...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...enslaved became a defining characteristic of the slaveholding South" is not new (3). One of the strengths of The Slaveholding Crisis is its broad survey of the antebellum period through...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...stereotypes than medical knowledge. Irish immigrants brought cholera, while Jewish ones infected New Yorkers with typhus. Riots erupted as a result of perceptions that Chinese men spread venereal disease. These...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...experiences. The book concludes with an overview of the American Revolution's dissolution of the trade that led to revised concepts of American geography. With little or no deerskin trade, new...
Atchison newspaper
Atchison Daily Globe . "The Leavenworth Lynching." January 17, 1901. "Nothing will be done about the Leavenworth lynching. The legislature will adopt resolutions condemning it; the newspapers will refer to...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...published in Bernard Romans's A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida (New York: Bernard Romans, 1775). Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, lccn.loc.gov/2004673312. The...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...and the idea of recasting history for new audiences and times. He discusses how he drew from lived experience in Havana to craft Winter Escapes as well as how his...
When the Border Crossed Me
...already known that Mexican people, men mostly, had started coming to central North Carolina. I knew many of them processed hogs or poultry, and that others worked on dairy or...