Leavenworth newspaper
...the State of Kansas. Blood was shed on Kansas soil for the negro." Leavenworth Times. Untitled. March 7, 1888. "Near Eskridge, a poor negro was treated to the methods...
Article praising Ponce de Leon's appearance
...May 21. Promptly at noon the mammoth show will begin, and then for nearly six months the park will be the mecca for many pilgrims who will journey there to...
Substantiation
...him off near Glendora, never seen again. They say Ain't it like a negro to swim the river with a gin fan round his neck. They say it was hog's...
Stones and Shadows
...the short laugh that he knows well. Not funny yet again. But I see that he's right — the mausoleum is expanding. Construction materials are stacked nearby, and the frame...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...that history solely in relation to the context of British colonialism, for science and empire entwined in the Gulf South for nearly three hundred years prior to US founding and...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...offered this alternative. Charleston's ex-slaves expressed the counter-narrative in vibrant public festivals and Emancipation Day celebrations near the end of the Civil War and throughout Reconstruction, reflecting the freedmen and...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...at the Brite Ranch, near Marfa, Texas, 1918. Photograph by unknown creator. Courtesy of The Portal to Texas History, University of North Texas Libraries and Marfa Public Library. In labeling...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...June 2009, “more than eight million Americans lost their jobs, nearly four million were foreclosed each year, and 2.5 million businesses were shuttered.”1Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, “The Great Recession: Over but...
Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
...Decatur, Georgia for nearly a decade, came upon this episode in Atlanta's history while researching a magazine article. In this exclusive Southern Spaces interview, he speaks with Joseph Crespino about the sources...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...By examining the transshipment of oil and gas, light and heavy manufacturing, and agribusiness, we can begin to see a nexus that stretches out to touch nearly every part of...