Memorializing the Freedom Riders
Essay Another Mother's Day has come and gone and still no officially supported memorial honors the Freedom Riders at the site where civil rights workers braved the vicious firebombing of...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...information—not a diary or journal or letter, not even a mention of them in anything but official records like deeds, probate files, and court minutes. Many of the gravestones they...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...set the encampment in." Although he thought the site provided the necessary access to wood, water, and forage, Cox considered it "objectionable from a military point of view." The uneven...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...legislators passed the Transportation Investment Act of 2010 (TIA). The legislation carved the state into twelve transportation districts and charged elected officials in each with assembling a list of projects...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...an official in Middlesex County conveyed to the Bureau's assistant commissioner for the state, Colonel Orlando Brown, his approval that freedpeople would receive state sanction for marriage; he hoped, however,...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...expanding to discuss medical science’s responsibility to queer subjects. Homosexuality was considered a mental disorder up until 1973, and the American Psychiatric Association (APA) didn’t officially rule reparative therapies as...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Latin America, Mariana Candido, "African Freedom Suits and Portuguese Vassal Status: Legal Mechanisms for Fighting Enslavement in Benguela, Angola, 1800–1830," Slavery & Abolition 32.3 (2011): 447–459; Roquinaldo Ferreira, Cross-Cultural Exchange...
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...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...Sacred Harp singings for its geographic range and provided a group of fifty Irish college students with their first exposure to the emphatic style and spiritual energy that characterizes large...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...hierarchical relationships among towns based on tribute and surplus. He then offers two Spanish expeditions' (de Soto's and Juan Pardo's) interactions with large chiefdoms to illuminate the complex political landscape...