Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
Introduction Many of the novels that we call plantation romances also bear a different name: we know them and see them discussed as "Anti-Tom novels," written implicitly or explicitly to...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...did write in and of the agrarian Deep South for which Andalusia provided a model. The 544-acre estate consists of "gently rolling hills divided into a farm complex, hayfields, pastures,...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...is never dissolved. Black ancestry, however distant or minimal, permanently identifies its descendants as Black. The immutability of Black racial identity is at the core of racism. White supremacy depends...
Work
...the mother to two children. By twenty-five, she was divorced and a single parent. Arnoult supported her family for nineteen years through a series of odd jobs, from delivering newspapers,...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...Prevention and a Battle of Atlanta scholar; Allen Tullos, ECDS co-director and Emory history professor; Brian Croxall, project coordinator and ECDS digital humanities strategist; Jay Varner, chief software developer for...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...to the mass-mediated, distant worlds aurally constituted on popular network broadcasts. Just as so many of the long-established programs had aided the creation of regional and national audiences so did...
Deep Ellum Blues
...in the social geography of the city: North and South Dallas. No other direction on the compass mattered quite so much — even "west," the direction that was purported to...
Winslow Homer and the American Civil War
...brief history of Andersonville Prison and the Battle of Petersburg Part 5: Wood suggests theories for the diverging sets of planks in the lower portion of Homer’s painting Part 6: Wood ponders...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...come to the United States. Increasing numbers found their way, as Rudy did, to the Southeast. Migrants did not disperse evenly, but settled in clusters and hot spots. The new...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...Confederate History Month pronouncements, and reenactments of Jefferson Davis’s inauguration steal headlines. It is hard to read the mind of this South. Richmond Times-Dispatch, Display at the Civil War Centennial...