"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Illinois, 1825-1870 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978); Eric Foner, ed., The New American History (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997); Patricia Nelson Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West(New...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...facing all streams shaping Cajun culture, among which Lomax lists French, African American, and Native American. The culture was primarily rural and under significant economic stress. While Flaherty romanticizes living...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...and Slavery in a Georgia Community, Working Paper #2, Sloan Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life, Emory University, 2001 and Mark Auslander, "Dreams Deferred: African-Americans in the History...
Encountering COVID
...on social media." I could do the same thing. I could do Americans of the pandemic. Who We Are Now—that was the name right from the beginning. I know that...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...Americans or Blacks, while at the same time sympathize with them as poorer and less modern versions of themselves."61Anthony Harkins, Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon (New York:...
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...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880–1930 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000). A log train with cut, stacked timber, near Lockhart, Alabama. American Lumberman 1907,...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...venue to the "Race Course," and reduced the number of persons for sale: Joseph Bryan’s Advertisements for the “Sale of Slaves”, The Savannah Daily Morning News, February 27, 1859. Mortimer...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...book, and there was a section in the back of the index called "Most Recent American Writers" or "Young American Writers," something like that. And the youngest writer in that...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...the Deep South: "NOLA Hip-hop Archive," http://www.nolahiphoparchive.com. The Amistad Research Center is the nation's oldest, largest, and most comprehensive independent archive specializing in African American history: "Amistad Research Center," http://www.amistadresearchcenter.org....