Birdhouses
...for Academic Affairs at Virginia Military Institute. His publications include Southern Women Playwrights: New Essays in Literary History and Criticism (University of Alabama Press, 2002) and three books on Erskine...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...impetus as an explicitly abolitionist form, like Stowe's novel (indeed the narratives were an important source for her book's rendering of slave life). The fugitive or freed slaves, writing first-hand...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
Blog Post The activism of Appalachian women who took up the fight for justice in the 1960s and 1970s pulsed outward from a core ethic of care. Caregiving animated their...
A City Divided
...School of History, Technology, and Society in 2001. She is the author of several papers and book chapters that investigate 20th century US urban history, urban geography, housing segregation, and...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...University, he not only conducted pioneering empirical research on Black life, but also became the leading theorist and activist on racial equality. Challenging Booker T. Washington's accommodation to political and...
The Shenandoah Valley
...Library Rare Books Division, digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/af1f02d7-5641-ce42-e040-e00a18064e03. The creation of the national park was part of a long pattern of boosterism and economic development in the Valley, but it did herald a...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...the project director and editor-in-chief of Sounding Spirit, a research lab and publishing initiative promoting collaborative engagement with historical American songbooks. Karlsberg is an internationally recognized singer, teacher, composer, and songbook...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...and writing has focused largely on issues related to contact between European invaders and first peoples in North America. His books include Making an Atlantic World: Circles, Paths, and Stories...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...as indistinguishable. They represented identically distasteful themes of violence, racism, and anti-Americanism" (193). Finally, Behnken does not provide any maps, a noteworthy oversight in a book that advances an argument...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...owned businesses and organizations, as well as for its tradition of protecting Black people's voting rights amid racial violence. The relative success of the town earned accolades from Booker T....