An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...you in Vietnam? GAUTREAUX: I was going to join the Air Force, but they had that draft lottery, and I drew number 361. Number one went, and the further away...
Brushes with War
Review The Assessment (Spc. Nick Weishaar), 2012, Oil on board by Victor Juhasz. Reproduced by permission of "The Joe Bonham Project." Created in cooperation with the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...turns out, the transfer of McDonald's son to Dinsmoor's care was not unique. In the decades following the US Revolution, a number of American Indian women and men and elite US whites...
The Carolina Piedmont
...of the Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line Railway offered a direct route from New York to New Orleans and further shifted the region's orientation away from the Carolina coast. Cotton agriculture,...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...Social Explorer. Still, there are a number of reasons to suspect that the 2012 T-SPLOST referendum is not the latest chapter in an all-too familiar story. For one, the metropolitan...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...and creatively transformed across time and space. Tracing Rose and Ashley If the embroidered text is correct, Ashley probably kept the gifted object throughout her life, in slavery and freedom,...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...broadly conceived program. I talked with interdisciplinary faculty and, whenever possible, hired bright project personnel who were themselves scholars. I was interested in how media innovations affect the way we...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...ongoing project of the Tennessee State Parks to collect, archive, and present the music, folklore, and cultural history of the eleven counties along the 300-mile Cumberland Trail State Scenic Trail corridor....
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Unearthing their worlds sheds light on a distinct history of emancipation that did not fully align with liberalism's trajectory, pushing us to move away from the teleological notion that modern...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...mother Matilda Teney. The 1800 census indicates that the household of Charles Teney in the District of Columbia consisted of fourteen free persons, all of them non-white, and one enslaved. Charles...