The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...just place” on the bookshelves of our great poets. Searching for Shepherd Reginald Shepherd’s six volumes of poetry continue to amass a dedicated following from fans, fellow poets, and scholars....
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...no reliable data on the number of children with special needs enrolled in private schools. A small number were established to serve special needs students, but the vast majority do...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...number of persons he used to abuse, but there were a great many."6Ira Berlin et al., eds., Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867, ser. 1, vol. 2, The Wartime...
The Carolina Piedmont
...that connected mountains with coast. Faced with increasing white numbers and hostility, as well as the ravages of smallpox and the occupation of their familiar territory, natives desperately sought strategies...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...Henry, the great leader of the NAACP in Mississippi, but, to be candid, his wife likely would have quashed any such project. I told Ash about Jheri's SRS, then called...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...lights on, businesses like Wal-Mart are becoming the major employers. When mines close and the number of miners decreases, company housing may deteriorate, be abandoned, or replaced by mobile homes....
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...related to Francis through her great- grandfather Charles Teney. These include: A. Charles Tinney, born about 1815, married Susan Johnson on July 29, 1840 in DC. Charles occupied a leading...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Without a doubt, this particular understanding of custom might have gained greater prominence inside courts of law in the nineteenth century precisely under liberal influences. Yet, when African and Afro-descendant...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...named Rose, valued at $700. The full listing reads: Slave Cicero 1,000, slave Sophia 300, slave Jane 400 Slave Jack 800, slave Rose 700, slave David 800, old woman 100...
Good-Bye to All That?
...in coordinated planning to protect the community's greatest resource, its natural and unspoiled beauty. Since the commission levies taxes for the county's excellent but strained schools, they emphasized the importance...