Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...also situates these lynchings within a process of modernization that was occurring in the county. Salisbury, the county seat, was a rural town, but, not unlike other localities in which...
The Shenandoah Valley
...quest of a passage also. In the moment of their junction, they rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea." The Valley's natural resources,...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
Essay On the first Monday of October 1974, a belligerent crowd of two hundred whites besieged a local school bus filled with African American students attempting to depart Destrehan High...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
Banner image for Driving Through Time, DocSouth, 2012. Review Well-worn words and phrases come to mind when driving the Blue Ridge Parkway—stunning, dramatic, timeless, a miracle of engineering and landscape...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...can run but you can’t hide forever!” America, we must respect and uphold “The Rule of Law.” Directions From Atlanta: Take I-20 East Exit 82 at Conyers-Athens (Highway 138). Turn...
Visualizing Spatial History: The Example of Rio de Janeiro
Presentation Part 2: Frank provides an overview of the Stanford Spatial History Project Part 3: Frank discusses creating visualizations that evoke patterns and varieties of spatial mobility, consciousness, and power...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...Berea College. https://www.berea.edu/cgwc/the-power-of-sankofa. This series asks readers to "reflect on history and understand as completely as possible how…racism, classism, sexism, ageism…effect our everyday lives." Referring to Natasha Trethewey's "Native Guard," McDaniels...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
Introduction The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project's current home page, showing the "shelf" of texts from which a user can select one to explore, 2014. Screenshot by Stephen Railton. Courtesy of Digital...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...terrorism that blacks endured as they labored to establish households and communities in rural and urban environments.1Leon Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (New...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker S. Wright Kennedy is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Rice University. His primary area of interest is the integration...