The Chesapeake Bay
...at the Continental Shelf. The forests were covered in spruce and fir and the Susquehanna River carved its way to the coastline on the Continental Shelf over hundreds of years...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...this transformative event that gave rebirth to a nation. He tells a compelling story, based on diaries, letters, and other archival material. A number of questions remain unanswered, however. What...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...the two concepts. They suggest that in spite of diasporic indigenous persons' relationships to multiple places—a lost homeland, a current abode, a far-away site of work—and to multiple identities—clan, tribal,...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...and bureaucratic struggle over segregation. The history of these places offers new insights into the way states and localities utilized federal programs and dollars to bolster Jim Crow and extend...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...Irish singer stood before the class, called out the page number, and asked to sing the song "Poland style." As Sacred Harp singing continues to spread, singers are finding ways...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...into the metropolitan center of the Deep South. The forces that had reshaped the city's built environment affected spatial and social relations in ways both intended and unintended. With an...
Brushes with War
...comparative vantage point, I hurried back up the marble steps of the Patent Office to explore the ways an earlier generation of American artists dealt with a brutal war on...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...far from consistent and in no simple or teleological way spawned the literary nationalism of the Confederacy. W. A. Reed, Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, circa 1890. Courtesy of Alabama Department of...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...with a token number of Black students to deflect federal scrutiny, and that increasingly professed nonracial reasons for their practices, often citing religion. Many headmasters of the “segregation academies” by...
Residues of Border Control
...open the possibility of a different kind of welcoming. The photographs change the framing of the border away from a security-maximizing stance and towards a depiction of immigrants as subjects....