"Little Switzerland"
"LITTLE SWITZERLAND, A Private Park that is Visited by a Large Number of People" "In considering the many improvements that are going on in various parts of the city, Little...
Welcome!
...our website, updated our audio and video, and significantly expanded our readership. As an online journal working at the intersection of a number of scholarly disciplines, we find ourselves in...
The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...will not approve the plan because it reduces the influence of African American voters across the state. The Alabama Legislative Reapportionment Office details the changes, which reduce the number of...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...far from consistent and in no simple or teleological way spawned the literary nationalism of the Confederacy. W. A. Reed, Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, circa 1890. Courtesy of Alabama Department of...
The Border South
...it turns out, stood right on the border on the Ohio River: Jefferson County with over 10,000 enslaved persons. The Border, however, was also home to the largest numbers of...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
Introduction: A Visit to Andalusia, August 2007 The road leading to the farmhouse is long, rutted, and unpaved —the land surrounding it, quiet and unkempt. I pass a dilapidated milking...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
"Aunt Narcissus Benson's quilt. She gave Mrs. H. R. Black." Mary Snoddy received a quilt from Narcissa Benson, an unmarried aunt who was fifty years old in 1880 and living...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...about runaway slaves. While most databases do not yet provide features like transcripts, there are a number of useful tools available for researchers and students. UNCG has created the Digital...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...in public domain. The questions motivating Pargas are commendable, and in asking them, the author finds himself in good company. Despite Pargas's claims to new lines of inquiry, historians have...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...lessons are intended for vast expert and general audiences: from pediatricians, public health professionals, and other specialized communities of practice to ordinary people and political leaders across the planet. What has...