Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...turns out, the transfer of McDonald's son to Dinsmoor's care was not unique. In the decades following the US Revolution, a number of American Indian women and men and elite US whites...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...North Carolina. White Plains Baptist Church, White Plains, North Carolina, November 10, 2007. Photograph by Flickr user Jimmy Emerson, DVM. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Like most family reunions,...
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...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...Harp singers to the Florida Folk Festival (FFF) stage. The singers had traveled from the Okefenokee region of southeast Georgia and northeast Florida to the town of White Springs. They...
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...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Act of 1854, it became the site of a struggle between northern and southern settlers over the extension of slavery. Although some northern white settlers opposed slavery on moral grounds,...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...were few established businesses, mainstream organizations or tradition-minded civic leaders around. There were, however, plenty of cheap rental properties available and an "anything is possible" view of the future.6According to...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...Dydo's book (written with William Rice) Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises, 1923-34 (Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2003), 70-75. In this earlier piece of writing, North and South do not...
The Shenandoah Valley
...Valley, as the Massanutten ridge separates the forks of the Shenandoah for over 40 miles on their course northward. They join in northwestern Virginia near Front Royal and then the...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...or movements from north and west that brought hundreds of others to long-settled Hanover County. The legal framework for emancipation-era marriage, which generated the records through which we can know...