An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...run away or to rebel, and they would bring additional value when they had babies—the so-called increase. Aunt Grace, for instance, gave birth to nine children, three of whom—Jacob, Jack,...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...University of Virginia Press, 2013); William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb, Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence Against Mexicans in the United States, 1848–1928 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013); and Michael J....
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...Rico (San Juan: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1998), 83–88. The visual vocabulary of Frade's painting struck a powerful chord among Puerto Ricans because it was validated by...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...May 1937. Photograph by Dorothea Lange. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsa.8b31944. An ambitious and courageous professional and activist, Nixon's life and works rightfully deserve...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Stephanie Dowda on Topophilia
...encounter with The Lightning Field in New Mexico, an installation piece by renowned sculptor, Walter De Maria. Dowda describes the piece as a quarter-mile long desert field installed with nearly...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...are now many models for web and video interpretation of spatial and highway histories; see, for instance, the 2013 film, Paving the Way: The National Park-to-Park Highway, which presents the...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...— and in many instances shared — fellow white southerners' taboos against "social equality." They opposed lynching but were not universally in favor of federal anti-lynching legislation, and they advocated...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...that Appalachian studies isn't interdisciplinary enough? For instance, urban planners, demographers, and ethnographers (among others) are needed to understand urban Appalachia, immigration, housing, and employment. To be fully interdisciplinary, Appalachian...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...city.10Various Artists, Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album (Nonesuch Records, 2005). It instantly became the soundtrack of recovery, blaring from radios as hammers rang, saws cut, and backhoes cleared throughout...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...was not begun to free the slaves." Not much elaboration follows this forthright assessment. Instead, visitors can turn to two multimedia installations on the subject: the first-person "Journey to Freedom,"...