Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...is natural to any one thinking that it is pleasant to be one.... Once in talking and saying that in America the best material is used in the cheapest things...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...River Parade in April of 1941. Throughout the forties and fifties, the River Walk featured a small sampling of restaurants, shops, and boating activities that drew in a fair number...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...1920–1940. Sketch map by Alice M. Grant based on the work of Zora Neale Hurston and Everett L. Fly. Originally published in "Eatonville Historic Trails ISTEA Proposal," 1996. Courtesy of...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...an Indian named Pentocolo, for example, operated simultaneously as a "Spanish ally and an English sympathizer" (143). Overview map of the Yamasee War, June 29, 2007. Map by Pfly. Courtesy...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...this map, click here. At the most distant zoom level, only Stevens mills with significant union action are labeled. The larger the marker the greater the number of employees and...
The Black Belt
...in the Black Belt led Alabama into the Confederacy in 1861. Briefly, following emancipation and the South's military defeat, African Americans first went to the state's polls in 1867 and...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...was a common situation throughout the antebellum South. Thomas Jefferson may be the most famous transgressor with Sally Hemings, but he had company. Historians place the number of mulattoes in...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...counties combined (250,885). The numbers of African American residents in "diversifying" Fayette, northern Fulton, and Gwinnett counties each approximately doubled over the course of the decade; the numbers in Henry...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...of bureaucracy did not nest cleanly. While federal initiative may have prompted action, in Virginia, as in a number of other southern states, the cohabitation registrations came about through state...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...and Sugerees in the lower Catawba based on the common experience of suffering at the hands of the Westos and Occaneechis. Overview of the Yamasee War. Map by pfly, Wikimedia...