Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
Review The thirst for information and the power of lies is "a very old problem," writes Alejandra Dubcovsky, yet Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South is more than...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...high number but nothing like comparative statistics in the central or southern parts of the state.59For a good understanding of these numbers, see Megginson, African American Life, 8. Consider how...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...as “the most photogenic disaster in American history since the Civil War.”1Codrescu, Andrei, cover blurb for Jane Fulton Alt, Look and Leave: Photographs and Stories from New Orleans’s Lower Ninth...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...depth. Since race is pervasive in American society, a wide variety of topics and research strategies would be fruitful for study. The development of the African American community in Atlanta,...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Illinois, 1825-1870 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978); Eric Foner, ed., The New American History (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997); Patricia Nelson Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West(New...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...American South. His numerous essays and reviews appear in such journals as the Southern Literary Journal, Southern Quarterly, Mississippi Quarterly, American Literature, Southern Studies, Studies in American Humor, American Quarterly,...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...Native Americans from the Ozarks to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) beginning in 1820, many Cherokee maintained anonymity and remained in the Ozarks. Some Cherokee intermarried with Euro-American homesteaders or clandestinely remained...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...his people had long resided on.2We assume this Indigenous leader was Muscogee, but the older African American oral accounts we heard referenced him as "Indian" or "Native American." White settlers...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...African American families at these and other scales, see Thavolia Glymph, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008); Anthony...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...Smithsonian building, known today as "The Castle"? As is well established, enslaved African Americans worked on the construction of many buildings in antebellum Washington, DC, including the US Capitol and...