The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...the "peace-maker" on board the U.S. Steam Frigate, Princeton, on Wednesday 28th Feb 1844, New York, 1844. Lithograph by N. Currier. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs...
Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
Introduction Thomas Mullen is the author of four novels, including The Last Town On Earth (2006), which received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize and was recognized by USA Today as...
Zircon
...measured rate. The zircon lasts when mother rocks around have crumbled, worn away to sand. It keeps the fingerprints of isotopes from clouds of the original primordial dust, right here...
The Bulletin—November 29, 2012
...1779 illustrates the border which was drawn between the colonies of North Carolina and South Carolina in 1772—the same border that present-day researchers sought to recreate aided by GPS technology....
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...the garden accessory company Elegant Earth, worked with Gainey in the 1990s and noted that the designer had a way of "making things look spontaneous. . .that were planned." Most...
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
...America writ large: did the “Mississippi Plan” become the American way? Part 4: Dr. Crespino analyzes the role of the scapegoat metaphor of Mississippi as “innocent victim” in segregationist politics Part...
From A Field Guide to Etowah County
...to set things right. Goldenrod blazes the highway's shoulders, all the way to Birmingham or Chattanooga, and starlings gather like glass, like grackles in the trees, such sociability an advance...
Off-Season
FOR FIELDWORKERS AND FARMERS LIKE ME Early, on grayest morning, when we nettled deep in between rows, tobacco and sweet potato, both two seasons away from planting, you reasoned I...
Article praising Ponce de Leon's appearance
...will find the old playground of Ponce de Leon has passed away, and in its stead a fairyland has been created, studded with multitudinous attractions [midway, skating rink, picnic grounds,...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...complex, paved roads, a freshwater pond created by excavation, and the present-day lighthouse, still used for guiding maritime traffic in Doboy Sound. Internal Waterway, Sapelo Island, Georgia, 2015. Screenshot courtesy...