Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...upon a material culture legacy ranging from Captain John Smith’s travels from England to Jamestown to the most recent influx of Mixtec migrants of southern Mexico to address a complicated...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...161-63. The traffic in human property continued after slaves arrived in their new locales. Recent work on the slave trade suggests that local sales vastly outnumbered inter-regional sales between the...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...some public housing complexes did not provide safe environments to raise children, leading many to form tenants' groups and protest against housing and city officials. Despite recent scholarship, their experiences...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...the Protestant Apprentice Boys of Derry defended the city against the monarch's claim to divine right. More recently, the Free Derry civil rights movement represented a modern freedom struggle. On...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...Harvard law school-grad and a pollster in Richard Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign. In recent years, Phillips has become one of the most impassioned critics of the Bush administration, but in...
Bricking the Church
...Gnomon Press. About the Author Robert Morgan is the author of fourteen books of poetry, most recently Terroir, 2011. He has also published nine volumes of fiction, including Gap Creek,...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...the film misses a chance to reflect our current concerns about PTSD and the burden born by America's poor in our most recent wars. This is not the only omission...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...have an opportunity to tell in Anniston." The nationally recognized local paper, The Anniston Star, located at the time within blocks of the bus station, has editorialized frequently in recent...
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...Amistad announced on December 3 that they will be adding New Orleans hip-hop and bounce music to their historic collection. "Recent donations by the NOLA Hiphop Archive and the Where...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...place and time, R.E.M., especially given the band’s recent breakup. Knowing music snobs will name quirky, dance-inducing Pylon. Some people will praise the wig-wearing cut-ups who started it all, the...