Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...flowers achieved with a limited number of colors and characteristic dotted backgrounds in black or blue." More expensive than everyday fabrics, the choice of an imported chintz for a wedding...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...it twice since I’ve been here with that hybrid corn, and you just can’t make hominy out of it. Oh, it’ll peel good, but . . . you just can’t...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...a time, just looked at one another and down at the ground. Jane felt there was surely something hanging in the oppressive air. It did not seem to be rain,...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
Blog Post In a 2021 case from Arizona, Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., issued an opinion of the US Supreme Court—calling it a "fresh look"—that sabotages Section 2 of the...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...the blows that we know are lurking just over the horizon. A number of studies of Katrina have appeared since the event. Most were brief glances at some fragment of...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...to represent the approximate number of deaths that occurred in 2014 as reported by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). Yes, the teeth are cast from my original tooth and...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...jurisdictions see "Section 5 Covered Jurisdictions," United States Department of Justice, accessed May 21, 2013, http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/sec_5/covered.php. Congress enacted Section 5 because state and local officials habitually obstructed the voting rights...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
Introduction: Unusual Sympathies In 1811 a prominent Choctaw woman named Molly McDonald placed her eleven-year-old son in the home of Silas Dinsmoor, an unpopular US government official who had just established...
The Carolina Piedmont
...that connected mountains with coast. Faced with increasing white numbers and hostility, as well as the ravages of smallpox and the occupation of their familiar territory, natives desperately sought strategies...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...just-proposed amnesty for illegal immigrants — a proposal, actually, that all the emigrant rights organizations are against. He says he disagrees with just about everything Bush has done, and I...