Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...people, politics, and sovereignty, viewing his slaveholding household as superior to the household arrangements of the Choctaw communities that surrounded him. Nonetheless, he eagerly incorporated McDonald's son into his family....
The Carolina Piedmont
...that connected mountains with coast. Faced with increasing white numbers and hostility, as well as the ravages of smallpox and the occupation of their familiar territory, natives desperately sought strategies...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...his peers in the planning profession by touting the very patterns of expansive, leap-frogging development that are so apparent in Atlanta and its Sunbelt peers. And his assessment of Atlanta...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...from his wife as a lodger in Philadelphia. He later resided in Brooklyn, New York, near his elder sister Helen and his mother, who eventually moved to Brooklyn from South...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...and became the public historian at the College of Charleston's Avery Research Center. The workflow for LDHI online exhibitions relies heavily on the collaborative student work model and editorial process...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...broadcast area. Bill Waddell, the station's current owner and its historian, has understood and maintained this locally-focused orientation since joining the station in the 1970s. His comments in 2005 reflect...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...see Julio LeRiverend, "De la historia provincial y local en sus relaciones con la historia general de Cuba," Santiago 46 (1982): 121–136. The historiography on urban free populations of color...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...listed as laborer in the US Treasury Department. His Freedmen's Bank application of July 29, 1871, listing Charles and Susan Tinney as his parents, lists him as a US Government...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...Street to West End in 1872. After his death in 1889, Richard Peters left his son E.C. the Atlanta Street Railroad, which included fifteen miles of line, fifty cars and...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...companies that surround his family's fifty acres of property that rests in the middle of an MTR mine. Mark Schmerling, Larry Gibson and his dog, "Dog," overlook the destruction at...