Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...gone."25Saxon, "The Victim," 20. Seth also began to "stay out all night," until one day he simply did not come home. Missing for three days, his father went in search...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...his master's life . . . but today, today when he knows that, in eighteen hours, his wife will no longer be among the living, he flies to throw himself...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...days work bricklayers at $2.50, 2 days carpenters at $3.00 per day and 16 1/2 days work of laborers, at 1.25 per day" and "8 days stonecutters" at 2.00 per...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...bayou: naissance d'une poésie acadienne en Louisiane," The French Review 70, No. 3 (February, 1997): 439–451. But challenges to the song hunter's cultural capital did not materialize overnight. Cajun Country: Lache...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...finished twenty-seven days later, earning four dollars per day for dispensing with Cherokee possessions. They delivered the sales money to Fort Cass for shipment to the Indian Commissioners in Washington...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...aims to prevent misconceptions he fears are taking root about the uniform nature of the segregated South and forestall mistaken present-day lessons that ignore the role of class in the...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...supervising some of St. Augustine's more dubious attractions, including "Luella Day McConnell's Fountain of Youth," where visitors still sip today.46Amy Howard, "Public Market (Slave Market)," published February 5, 2009, accessed...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...Bridge, Selma, Alabama. Earlier that day, upriver in Selma, with the Edmund Pettus Bridge as skeletal backdrop, McCain had spoken to a small, heavily white gathering, announcing that he would...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...breaks in the back-dune-meadow vegetation indicate previous shorelines. Notice also how shorebirds use such sandbars as resting places before flying away. Glossary of Terms Back-dune meadow – Vegetated area behind...
The Shenandoah Valley
...that crows flying over it for the balance of the season will have to carry their provender with them." Sheridan's troops burned large swaths through the Valley, drove off livestock,...