The Shenandoah Valley
...Native American tribes burned large sections of it annually and settled in villages along its many streams and rivers. In the eighteenth century the Valley was the backcountry frontier of...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...and unedited production transcripts. Feminists often expressed reservations and concerns about the position of women within SCLC. In the unedited transcript of an interview recorded in Boston on November 1,...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...McGraw et al., The Sacred Harp, 299. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss4Td-xSsAE&feature=youtu.be?rel=0&enablejsapi=1 [360-degree videos can only be viewed on a desktop computer or in the YouTube app on a mobile device. Click and drag...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...Laboratory. Built as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II, Oak Ridge was one of three federal production sites housing workers and scientists who developed the atomic bomb....
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...named Rose, valued at $700. The full listing reads: Slave Cicero 1,000, slave Sophia 300, slave Jane 400 Slave Jack 800, slave Rose 700, slave David 800, old woman 100...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...a classroom model. I founded a fictional group, "Friends of Salt Creek," built a website, and started exploring with my students.2For a timeline see Friends of Salt Creek, Accessed April...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...hundred acres of commercial development, six thousand single family residences, six thousand multi-family dwellings, park sites, church and school sites, a country club, swimming pool, tennis courts, an executive golf...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...complexity, and indigenous power rather than the inexorable westward march of European domination. For Dubcovsky this early South—"the composite societies who came to inhabit the colonies of South Carolina, Georgia,...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...a compelling site of emotional connection, commemoration, and resistance. Finally, we speculate as to why persons unknown, on the night of Juneteenth, sought to attack this particular site. The Mount...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...Mexican Americans should be included in the official history of medical exclusion in the United States" (283). Racial and ethnic prejudice and illness have combined in potent ways to justify...