The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
Presentation About the Speaker Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell professor of American History, co-director of the Center for Visual History, and associate director of the Center for Native American Studies at...
Finding Media
...few favorite sites and search strategies for finding useable media: Public Domain and US Government works: The term "public domain" can be a little tricky—there are a number of caveats...
Piedmont Blues
Figure 2.1: The Piedmont. Map courtesy of James W. Clay and Paul D. Escott, Land of the South (Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, 1989.) Although the Piedmont plateau stretches from New...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...to national and transnational trade: "It has always been exceedingly difficult to ascertain the exact number of slaves in the Southern states; the usual estimate is about four and a...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...know of only one white-authored account. The June 4, 1893, Atlanta Constitution reports that a Mr. W.D. Boggus of Covington has a number of curiosities on display in his place...
Bodies and Souls
...Screenshot by Southern Spaces. I knew that I wanted to make a film about rural healthcare, largely explored through observational footage in a clinic, to shed light on the real...
The Bulletin—April 24, 2013
...if they agree to relocation. On March 29, Exxon-Mobil's sixty-five-year-old Pegasus pipeline burst in Mayflower, Arkansas. The town, which lies twenty-five miles northwest of Little Rock, was inundated with an estimated 210,000...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...white Kentuckians were more likely to identify themselves as southern. See George C. Wright, Racial Violence in Kentucky (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990) 5, 70–72, 118–19. "Of about...
Iconoclasm and the Confederacy: The Challenge of White Supremacy in the Memorial Landscape
Presentation Responses About the Speakers Kirk Savage is a professor of art history and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. He has written extensively on public monuments within the theoretical context...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...mob, but the soldiers did little to prevent the raid, refusing to fire their guns. Once inside, the mob freed all the white prisoners, roughed up and "interrogated" the suspects,...