Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...in US households was relatively small, the study of their lives and their migrations is illuminating.8 It is impossible to fully assess the numbers of Native children "adopted" by US whites during...
The Shenandoah Valley
...visitors. In local parlance to go "up the Valley" is to go south and to go "down the Valley" is to go north. In both cases the direction is relative...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...con-suetudinario y memoria: práctica jurídica y costumbre en Castilla y León (siglos XI–XIV) (Madrid: Universidad Carlos III, 2012); Yanna Yannakakis, The Art of Being In-Between: Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity and...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...and relief. Most importantly, the blues is both the cause of song and song itself, both an active emotion and its formal expression, and, in this, it blurs the boundary...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...of itself involves an infusion of city into country and vice versa. Sibley approaches the pastoral ideal of "the country" that emphasizes the "peace, innocence, and simple virtue" of rural...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...this discussion to one community. As I illustrate in the essay, this is a regional tradition found in both southeast Georgia and northeast Florida. I pay particular attention to factors...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...time it was owned by Providence Life and Accident Insurance Co. until it was sold to Asian investors and transformed into the Great Mall of China. In 1998, Florida-based Sembler...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...our fellow citizens in the city. Our hope is that in some modest way the project will contribute to important conversations about class inequalities and race in the city. I...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...voice of the sea is clam, it is sensuous. It invites you to wade into its waters and lose yourself in the invisible beyond.8Kate Chopin, The Awakening (Chicago and New...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...Eastside, takes its place in the background. While the mural is emblematic of a proud African American history in central East Austin, it also evokes a present in which African...