Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...Charleston, South Carolina, November 10, 2013. Photograph by Spencer Means. Creative Commons license CC-BY SA 2.0. LDHI is planning new digital exhibitions and collaborations with partner institutions and scholars. In response...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...the South at between 10 and 12 percent in 1860, although the product of mixed-race unions constituted more significant proportions of city dwellers: 39 percent of free blacks and 20...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...they had been terrorized into testifying falsely by the police.1Bob Herbert, "A Death in Destrehan," New York Times, February 1, 2007. Adam Turner, Gil Scott-Heron at the Regency Ballroom, San...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...Upper and Deep South.6Steven Deyle, Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 145, 157-73, 291-96, Appendix B. Helam had one owner...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
Southwestern Humor Southwestern humor is perhaps the most intriguing of southern antebellum literary genres, for writers of this loose-knit "school," often contributors to sporting or gentlemen's magazines, abandoned the plantation...
The Border South
Defining the Border Anyone who has lived for a time in Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, or Maryland has heard their place of residence categorized as "not really the South." Sometimes, folks...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...Diaspora."1For more about the New Latino Diaspora, see S. Wortham, E.G. Murillo Jr., and E.T. Hamann, Education in the New Latino Diaspora: Policy and the Politics of Identity (Westport, CT: Ablex, 2002)....
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
Essay At historical plantation sites, where the subject of slavery is difficult to avoid, Park Service interpreters struggle to present the subject in the least offensive manner. Interpreters at Arlington...
Timber, Equity, and Ethics
Video About the Author Susan Hamill is a Professor of Law at University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa and an analyst of tax law. She is the author...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...nightclub, Orlando, Florida, July 8, 2016. Photograph by Flickr user Dannel Malloy. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. Makeshift memorials at Pulse, Orlando, Florida, August 1, 2016. Photograph by Flickr...