Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...US social currents. For instance, Wuthnow writes that "[a]lthough it is true that much about Texas is distinctive to its own location and history, Texas also serves valuably as a...
Palomares Bajo
...of selected articles, which are retained for a week or more, but are not archived online. Attempting to allay concerns, American Ambassador Angier Duke, the North Carolina tobacco heir, took...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...and sports photographer and filmmaker; information about him may be found at http://www.burtonholmes.org/associates/andredelavarre.html. Although it contains glaring inaccuracies and blind spots (plantation houses, for instance, were rarely the homes of Cajuns,...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...duress" with their former masters (39). In such instances, this agency involved escaping the oversight of former slave owners, as was the case of Thomas C. Hindman, an ex-Confederate general...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...its legacy: Around 2005, Middleton installed a permanent exhibition on slavery in one of its outbuildings, known as Eliza's House, listing the names of about 2,600 enslaved people associated with...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
Introduction Introduced in a 1995 song by the Atlanta-based group Goodie Mob, the idea of the "Dirty South" spread quickly throughout the rap music subculture and industry, and by the...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...and European religious traditions with current and historical ties to the site as well as a detailed recounting of the history of enslavement in the specific locale. The installation of...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...to feminism to lesbian/gay/bisexual rights. For instance, Evans points out that white southern Protestantism provided a space for a radical critique of segregation in the 1950s and that in her...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...out the views of the duties imposed on us, we may in some instances have to rise above the Law."31"Fellow Citizens," Pickens Keowee (SC) Courier, September 22, 1949. The Liberator...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...applications of the term see, Robbie Ethridge and Sheri M. Shuck-Hall, eds., Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South (Lincoln: University...