Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...As a society's self-portrait, displaying its aspirations and decorative schemes, such a collection is defined as much by what it excludes or treats as background as by what it includes....
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...very real fear that the cast- and audience-patrons feel intimately as we anticipated the first of what would be many racist, nationalist, and anti-LGBTQ+ policies that the Trump/Pence administration would...
A City Divided
...race riot, and residential proximity could have been understood by whites as increasing the likelihood of interactions between black males and white females—a relationship that whites feared. That said, it...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...mean, however, that the knowledge that peasants had gained about hookworm was not accepted or widely disseminated. Like that of any other process encouraging people to initiate or change behavior,...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...hate speech of the KKK during the marches and they will know that this blessed event is designed to exorcise that nightmare."17Joseph Boles, Jr. (speech, Foot Soldiers Monument dedication ceremony,...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...that reflects sustainable urban lifestyles. Longtime residents, most of whom are minorities and many of whom are economically disadvantaged, regard New Urbanism as producing new urban spaces that undermine the...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...mother Matilda Teney. The 1800 census indicates that the household of Charles Teney in the District of Columbia consisted of fourteen free persons, all of them non-white, and one enslaved. Charles...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...the generations, that before the Civil War, the quarry was mainly worked by enslaved men.5It would appear that few free persons, white or African American, labored in the quarry during...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...against Stevens products and the stores that sold them. The United Presbyterian Church identified three Biblical concepts that supported workers' right to organize and passed a resolution that urged its...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...free women of color formed a benevolent organization, the Female Union Band Society (FUBS). A decade later and for $250, they engaged Joseph T. Mason—schoolteacher and free man of color—to...