An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...local shooting matches, where a turkey or beef was the reward for the best marksman, and Chang and Eng acquired reputations as crackshots with rifles or pistols. It was the...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...squirrels, ‘possums an’ ‘coons an’ ground hogs, an’ turkeys.52Lennis L. Broadfoot, Pioneers of the Ozarks (Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1944). Zachariah McCannon, Searcy County miller Rick Horton...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...with celery and crackers, as well as main dishes of roasted turkey, baked opossum, mashed and sweet potatoes, corn, slaw, cranberries, white and corn bread, in addition to lemon and...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...Owltown and Walnut Mountains ascend twenty-one to twenty-six hundred feet. From the Cohuttas north and west of Ellijay, summits called Douglas, Demps and Turkey Mountains reach elevations of up to...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...to a "hemispheric south" where planters and railroad promoters envisioned business and trade networks across the Mexican borderlands and into Latin America during the last third of the nineteenth century...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...their presence did not necessarily invert or challenge white supremacist codes. In the Jackson Tract, black foremen served under the command of the white bosses who paid them to coerce...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...or, as in the story below, the innocent) and recodes them within the logic of the Arkansas imaginary. Take, for instance, Joyce and Judy's 2001 telling of how The Martins...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...(June 2010): 733-765; "A Resolution to encourage Enlistments and to promote the Efficiency of the military Forces of the United States," Bills and Resolutions, U.S. Senate, S.R. 82, 38th Congress,...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...More importantly, it documents and promotes digital humanities collaborations as sites of sustained and public-facing inquiry in which multiple people bring different talents and levels of expertise to a project....
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...entice curious northerners and reassure anxious southerners. Postcards from other cities similarly promoted their slave markets as tourist attractions, often with as conflicting historical and imaginary meanings as those of...