A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...all Confederates.5Randall, Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln, 99. Military and federal authorities charged or indicted a significant number of former confederate leaders, including Jefferson Davis late in the Reconstruction era, but presidents...
Stand & Witness: Art in the Time of COVID-19
How To Navigate We’ve arranged Stand & Witness as a guided tour. We recommend that you move through the exhibition according to the numbered tour stops or “hotspots.” To start...
Image Credits
...Suit, Faceless Man. Painting by Sandy Solomon. 1950 Toni Home Perm Advert, April 5, 2011. Photograph by Flickr user Tiffany Terry. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. Batesville Casket Company...
Making History
...pull out spoon after spoon after spoon. Published in I Was the Jukebox (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010). Published: 22 September 2011 © 2011 Sandra Beasley and Southern Spaces...
Another Failed Poem About the Greeks
...somewhere a maiden rattled in her chains. Published in I Was the Jukebox (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010). Published: 22 September 2011 © 2011 Sandra Beasley and Southern Spaces...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...loss of mining jobs and the transition to a global market and service economy paralleled the unraveling of the social safety net. In the 1990s, the bipartisan dismantling of Aid...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
..."Joe" Riley Jr., the city council commissioned a painting to memorialize Denmark Vesey, a free black artisan who in 1822 organized a major, unsuccessful slave insurrection in Charleston. Vesey, a...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...threat of espionage grew, Oak Ridgers monitored neighbors for signs of disloyalty or weakness. Even Santa Claus was not above suspicion. Learning to live in Oak Ridge meant adopting a "culture...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...relations (despite the fact that "Mexican and Mexican Americans were in the majority" (4) in El Paso). The author does not mention the Santa Ysabel massacre of 1915, the El...
Zircon
...measured rate. The zircon lasts when mother rocks around have crumbled, worn away to sand. It keeps the fingerprints of isotopes from clouds of the original primordial dust, right here...