Encountering COVID
...project." I could drive out to Yellowstone from North Carolina because I've done it before. Yeah, and then I will cry the entire time I go to national parks because...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hereafter Daniels Papers, SHC. — Jonathan Daniels to Josephus Daniels, 19 April 1937 Map of Jonathan Daniels' journey from A Southerner Discovers the...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...cameras into a series of 360-degree videos.3Janko Roettgers, "Google Is Shutting Down Its Jump VR Video Program," Variety (blog), May 18, 2019, https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/google-jump-shutting-down-1203219306/. We used the Sennheiser Ambeo VR microphone...
Genres of Southern Literature
...1830s, northern writers and readers were busily creating assumptions about the South’s difference, and writers and readers of the South correspondingly defined themselves against the place (the North) or the...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...parental status and their adopted children's inheritance rights through specific legislative acts.4Michael Grossberg, Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...Bailey K. Ashford immortalized his first hookworm patients in a photograph. The caption reads: "Photograph of a number of natives of Puerto Rico, showing pernicious anemia due to Ankylostoma duodenale."...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...Michael Brown joins a small group of scholars who are re-engaging the United States, particularly the Anglophone American South, in conversations about African-Atlantic religions. He situates the South Carolina Lowcountry...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...of twelve black teenagers gained admission to previously all-white high schools in the North Carolina cities of Charlotte, Greensboro, and Winston-Salem, in spite of disruptive opposition. And in Birmingham that...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...too close to home, the horror that helped build the United States and continues to haunt us. Solomon Northup in his "plantation suit," ca. 1853. Engraving from Solomon Northrup's Twelve...