"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...decades following Reconstruction. At the 1909 Atlanta supper, staged to garner national attention, Taft appealed to Democrats who sought to regain national political strength. As the New York Times reported:...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...of a cattle fence—an appropriate location, considering the various connections in his songs to horse culture. Who exactly Bornu was remains a mystery. No one with the surname Bornu appears...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...of ex-slaves in what was to become the United States.6See Kathleen Deagan and Darcie MacMahon, Fort Mose: Colonial America's Black Fortress of Freedom (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995); and...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...live in Stantontown at 706 Stanton Avenue. She appears sporadically in the Washington city directory, residing on Stanton Road, as late as 1909. She does not appear in the 1910...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...from any legal restraints (and public disclosure).21Michael S. Kang, "After Citizens United," Indiana Law Review 44, no. 243 (2010): 243–255. Whatever their differences, these corporate-funded groups are united by two...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...undergirds my approach to apprehending the different kinds of possible witness there. Brent Morris' thorough and thoughtful work on the Reverend William Henry Brisbane was also vital to this project...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...nothing so appropriately as to a tadpole walking upon stilts.20Helper, The Land of Gold, 71. What offended Helper's Anglo-Saxon sensibility was not just the freakish, exotic appearance of the Chinese...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...ID #2-24-4-65-1-1-1. In Scott County, our research uncovered a more muted approach in which intrepid black residents and their progressive white allies united in voter registration efforts.28Stuesse, "Globalization Southern-Style." Elsewhere,...
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
...at Appalachian State University) and Patricia Beaver (professor emerita of anthropology at Appalachian State University) developed After Coal: Welsh and Appalachian Mining Communities, a multi-media documentary project exploring the post-coal...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...theater," Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive-in_theater; Douglas Gomery, Shared Pleasures: A History of Movie Presentation in the United States (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992), 91. William Robert Bruce Lonnee, "Preserving the American...