St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...years of planning and a 2009 amendment to a City Code that barred new monuments in the plaza celebrating historical events occurring after 1821.16David Nolan, interview with the author, March...
How I Shed My Skin
Presentation and Review Civil rights narratives often empower and embolden, promoting faith in possibilities, hope for rectifying inequities. More sober assessments show that, though we've come a long way—thanks 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...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...inequality. This ideology allows white residents to celebrate progressiveness while failing to promote meaningful inclusion. Creekridge Park Demographics. Map by George Mayorga. From Behind the White Picket Fence: Power and Privilege in...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2013&BillID=H937. There was also red meat for religious conservatives. During his 2012 campaign for governor, former Charlotte mayor Pat McCrory had promised to concentrate on promoting jobs while avoiding divisive...
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,...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...exceeded by no antebellum publication other than Uncle Tom's Cabin, this abolitionist tome argued that slavery ruined the South by preventing economic development and industrialization, and that it hurt the...
Brushes with War
...short-lived exhibition, this substantial tome could be the guiding text for an entire American Studies course. Strong recent scholarship on Civil War history and on the era's relevant paintings provide...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...be available only to those motivated to purchase an eighty dollar tome. The authors are, in fact, well aware of the importance of what they have to offer, and they...
Theories of Time and Space
...you must carry — tome of memory, its random blank pages. On the dock where you board the boat for Ship Island, someone will take your picture: the photograph —...