Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...the Appalachian coalfields. The setbacks were frightening, but they made possible a more sober and critical perspective on the earlier period of upheaval. I began this book as a labor...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...most likely matches are as follows: The man Sandy, listed as "over 50" in the 1848 inventory, could be the eighteen month old Sandy, son of Ann, listed in 1799...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...S. Rosecrans, who promoted a Mexico Pacific and Rio Bravo Railroad from New Orleans to Mazatlán, and Edward Lee Plumb, who planned to connect Laredo to San Blas on Mexico's Pacific...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations: Part 2: Sanchez explores the impact of Mexican immigration on construction work in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina Part 3: Sanchez...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...Terms of Sale—One-third cash; remainder by bond, bearing interest from day of sale, payable in two equal annual instalments, to be secured by mortgage on the negroes, and approved personal...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...have two grindstones. One involves interfacing with a machine in ways that are sometimes difficult and tedious, much like archival work. Sometimes we are wrestling with code and how to...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...that "a single concentrated application destroys birds"; "even dilute applications are dangerous to fish"; and that, since the pesticide might be killing Georgia's wrens, robins, and mocking birds, "perhaps it...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...slave South, white Confederates appropriated and revised it as a song celebrating their affective attachment to their new nation. At the same time, unionist versions of the song appeared that...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...of Séjour's works to appear in print, he launched a popular and successful literary career, with twenty of his plays produced on the Paris stage between the 1840s and 1860s....
Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...Americas, its historical ties to French, Spanish, and British imperial projects, and its discourse of both cultural distinctiveness and interconnectedness, is an ideal subject for this approach. As an exercise...