The Carolina Piedmont
...in these rural communities and nascent towns. "The Piedmont is another land," wrote North Carolina journalist Jonathan Daniels in 1939. "It has always been a more serious minded land. [It]...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...In the 1830s alone, nearly three in ten enslaved people living in the state were forcibly removed from the Tidewater region. In the decade immediately preceding the Civil War, a...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...I do appreciate the cemetery for its wider purpose, I cannot help but recognize that the place owes its existence to a slave plantation founded in 1802 by George Washington...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...John Tinney, who seems to have been his brother. In 1881 Dennis Tinney is listed as a laborer in the Pension Office, Department of Interior. In 1871, John Tinney is...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...pre-World War II South is large. Major works include Wilma Dykeman and James Stokely, Seeds of Southern Change: The Life of Will Alexander (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1962); Morton Sosna, In Search of...
Genres of Southern Literature
...States, was beginning to understand itself in terms of cultural and political difference—in terms of what its way of life was not, and what it was positioned against. In the...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...is a movement that is unstoppable. Success is hard to measure. But I believe that water quality in the basin has improved steadily, incrementally, one part per million at a...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...loss in additional public health crises. In this commentary, I want to elaborate on how institutionalized ignorance affected the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) response and what can...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...with a glazed surface. The particular fabric in this quilt has been identified as typical of the chintzes produced in England in the 1840s, which "show an impressionistic shading of...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...I saw how, with the best intentions, people would attempt to implement change, perhaps win a victory, and then watch it slide away in a year or two because institutional...