Brushes with War
...and organized by Smithsonian Museum of American Art curator Eleanor Jones Harvey, "The Civil War and American Art" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) was an impressive exhibition. The...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...iron guns and stacks of cannonballs (Figures 20–26). A plaque erected by Florida's Daughters of the American Revolution memorializes American prisoners of war captured by British troops and held during the...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...use the word "blues" to advertise her traveling act. With her husband William "Pa" Rainey, she toured extensively with a number of different traveling groups, including the famous Rabbit Foot...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...experiences. The book concludes with an overview of the American Revolution's dissolution of the trade that led to revised concepts of American geography. With little or no deerskin trade, new...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...violence that characterized the post-Mississippian Native landscape altered political relationships between groups. Defense and safety trumped surplus and hierarchy, and new alliances formed between groups such as the Waxhaws, Esaws,...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...the American Negro Academy, an association of African American "men of science, letters and art or those distinguished in other walks of life" was founded in Washington, DC. It's purpose...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...African Americans near Monroe, Georgia on July 25, 1946. As they have every year since 2005, a multiracial group of performers staged a reenactment of the massacre and the events...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...states’ rights, federal authority, and the place of non-Americans in American society. The military records highlight the failure of Congress to provide adequate funds for an enormous and unnecessary military...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...to the project, one that, fortuitously, my academic role could support. To isolate the travel element, I offer a brief chronology that, since the traveling continues, can only be partial,...
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,...