Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...Gulf South: one that would include eastern Mexico and the Greater Caribbean. This is not to say that they did not appreciate the political distinctions between these places, but in...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...the Southeast, edited by Thomas J. Pluckhahn and Robbie Ethridge (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006) to describe the seventeenth century demographic and cultural crisis that occurred in the Eastern...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...Division, LC-USZ62-71022. Smithsonian Institution Building can be seen at the top center east of the Potomac River and Virginia, Washington Canal visible, proceeding from the Potomac River due east and...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...Brothers, Downtown Tampa aerial view, east from railroad sheds to Ybor, Estuary Zone, and gas storage tank Tampa, Florida, 1958. Catalog no.: PA 5858. The firm flourished during the 1920s...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...County, West Virginia, for generations. "Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment" presents images taken in 2005 and 2006 during Dotter's trips to towns in eastern Kentucky and southern West...
A City Divided
...lining Jackson Hill, just east of the Atlanta's downtown, were uncomfortable with the presence of African Americans in the area, it did not surface publicly until 1910. That year, local...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...Viranjini Munasinghe describes the plight of marginalized East Indians in the colonially derived West Indies Creole communities.29Viranjini Munasinghe, "Theorizing World Culture through the New World: East Indians and Creolization," American...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...fugitives from plantation slavery. Others had purchased their freedom in cash or through some form of service-based payments. In places like Santiago, the far eastern province of the Spanish colony...
Religion and the US South
...Appalachia, into the Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama,and Mississippi, into northern Louisiana and east Texas, and into southern Arkansas and southeastern Oklahoma—creating a Baptist domain within the US South,...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...ancestry. Because I'm from East Harlem, a US citizen, and was perceived as having assimilated to mainstream American culture, my closest Hispanic informants often referred to me as a Nuyorican...