An Oyster by Any Other Name
...fellow conspirators, tasting two thousand oysters from all along the Gulf Coast. It was the first symposium hosted by Foodways Texas, an organization dedicated to preserving, promoting, and celebrating the...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...Orlando1Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography (Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 1956), 78. Sankofa: go back to fetch it. The implied subject is the imperative "you," as in "you go back to fetch...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...crawl. In 1878 the Virginia legislature chartered the Peninsula Railroad Company to build a line along the Eastern Shore, but four years later local promoters were still waiting for the...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...of speed limits. The written legal code and the enforcement efforts do not always affect what one encounters on the highway. Despite the legal sanctioning of memorial plantings and state...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...down and regenerated the region's sandy soil.6Richard Walter Massey Jr., "A History of the Lumber Industry in Alabama and West Florida 1880–1914," (PhD diss., Vanderbilt University, 1960), 28–29. On the...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...Supreme Court. At two different times he's served as chief justice of that body, and he has worked with other tribes, including seven years as chief justice for the Santee...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...this reactionary movement. Republicans in Virginia’s legislature introduced a half-dozen bills to establish universal ESAs during the last two sessions but were stymied by bipartisan concerns about how vouchers benefited...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...down, look, and listen to archival materials that shape collective histories and their enduring legacies. Deriving its title from the Akan people of West Africa, the term Sankofa refers to...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...who may have later remarried a Charles Brown. Andrew and Susan Tinney's children included Susan (born 1851), who married Charles W. Jeffries, a sergeant in the US Army; James (born...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...nine young men should not be forgotten. Moreover, as many expressed, remembering Scottsboro could promote racial healing today, still a pressing need. The commemorative events centered on the Scottsboro Boys...