Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...always being virtuous. . . . He may be born good, noble, and generous; God may grant him a great and loyal soul; but despite all that, he often goes...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...rollout, flawed testing guidance, poorly prepared public health guidelines, confusing messaging, misguided mask recommendations, multiple data and analytic deficiencies, staffing shortfalls, and publication delays are traceable to assumptions widely held...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...to slave relationships but gave little indication how that would be implemented. Other orders went into great detail laying out the calculus of who counted as a freedman's proper wife,...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...the African-Atlantic—the geographical, cultural, and symbolic space linked by the dispersion of African-descended peoples across the Atlantic.2Although a number of studies reference African antecedents in their analysis of African American...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...Great Migration. Between 1916 and 1970, six million African Americans left the cotton fields and segregation of the rural South for northern, midwestern, and western cities, changing the American cultural...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...that motivates preservationists. In the early twentieth century, for example, African American women and men hiked Niagara Falls and cycled in Yellowstone. George Washington Carver, as we know from historian...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...the Pacific theater from insect-borne diseases, and the US Army proclaimed it the "war's greatest contribution to the future health of the world."3"DDT Seen for Public by Spring," Atlanta Journal,...
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...that the people who sold him the tickets were scammers. The boat was over-crowded and in a dangerously poor condition. The deck began filling with Mekong water. Everyone screamed in...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...address how selected cultures live or struggle to survive within their unique natural environments, with emphasis on those environments that are already at risk or where great change has already...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984), 152. For scholarly accounts regarding the numbers of children at Cornwall mission school...