Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
Review The thirst for information and the power of lies is "a very old problem," writes Alejandra Dubcovsky, yet Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South is more than...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...November 2005. Photograph by Jane Fulton Alt. Originally published in Jane Fulton Alt’s Look and Leave: Photographs and Stories from New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward (Center for American Places at...
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...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, President Donald J. Trump, and Director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dr. Robert R. Redfield listen as Dr. Stephan Monroe, CDC...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...often themselves examples of brittle misunderstanding(s) of the conditions of their own labor. The Academy's big house, the "Euroamerican order of the center," and the black culture center's small house,...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...Reprint from the Lindesmith Center (New York: Lindesmith Center, 1999), 43–44. The drug was marijuana.2Though usually spelled "marijuana" today, "marihuana" was the most common spelling in the United States during...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...Americans and told of hardships they faced under segregation, Raymond spent as much time telling about the joys and aspirations of his characters as he did the awfulness of the...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...political behaviors within Latin America were variations on their European or North American counterparts. Across Latin America, Afro-descendant peasants took manifold paths to reach rural worlds of freedom. Some were...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...burials. In the 1960s, developers sought to buy the land and disinter the remains in both burial grounds. African American activists, including the Afro-American Bicentennial Corporation (ABC), energetically resisted these plans,...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...had no place to lay their heads. But would Americans in 1939 behave like most of the Samaritans had done and turn them away? Or would Americans respond like the...