Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...from Fauquier County, Virginia, sometime before 1800. A Baptist minister, he married a Miss Stringfellow, and they had eight children. Their son Silas was born in 1800. In 1825 Silas...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
Review The thirst for information and the power of lies is "a very old problem," writes Alejandra Dubcovsky, yet Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South is more than...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
Review When Hernando de Soto's army of six hundred soldiers reached the middle Savannah River in 1540, arriving in what is today South Carolina and Georgia, they likely thought they...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...History of the North American West, 1800–1860 (New York: Ecco, 2012); Emma Rothschild, The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012). Adoption, expansion, and...
Religion and the US South
Introduction Hope Mills Rapid Lube Sign, Hope Mills, North Carolina, March 20, 2014. Photograph by Flickr user Gerry Dincher. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 2.0. Religion has been a formative...
Cajun South Louisiana
...speakers as English among Louisianas free population; by 1860, 70 percent of Louisianas free population spoke English. 1800s Language change was part of a broader process of Acadian acceptance of...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
Review Understanding the creation of social spaces in an unfamiliar landscape is, according to Robert Paulett, a productive way to account for eighteenth-century developments in the American Southeast, particularly in...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...certainly peculiar. Joseph with his head tied in a pocket handkerchief, habited in an Indian Hunting short, and an old pair of cloth pantaloons, without neck handkerchief or collar. Thomas...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
Introduction This multimedia essay complements the 2007 Appalshop film Morristown: in the air and sun. Written by independent filmmaker Anne Lewis, the director of Morristown, and Fran Ansley, a Tennessee...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...an area park located south of downtown Atlanta. (Clipping from the Atlanta Constitution, April 25, 1896.) Although these venues offered numerous open-air attractions, privately-owned parks were enclosed by fences and other...