Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...HistoryMiami Museum. Courtesy of HistoryMiami Museum. Queer histories have historically been rooted and entangled with—in nuanced and checkered ways—anti-Black violence. I'm more inclined to think of it this way: Florida...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...From the Florida Master Site File for the public market, found in the Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board Historic Properties Inventory Form. Public Market Clippings File, St. Augustine Historical Society...
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
...and First Presbyterian churches. "All three are generally supportive of the workers' right to organize," Finger summarized in a report to ACTWU, however they "had some reservations about the boycott."...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...and a coalition of scientists and middle-class suburbanites, who pushed for the preservation of free-flowing streams. It also helps Manganiello demonstrate how recurring cycles of flooding and drought, abundance and...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...Cajuns in the New Economy of Ethnicity (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002). His mediation rested on the primacy of French as a marker of cultural authenticity. "[T]he preservation of the language,"...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
Video and Essay Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs. A short film by Steve Bransford, 2010. Since early 2010, Steve Bransford has been working on a documentary video portrait...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
Review Building on a rich literature that explores the spatial dimensions of US race relations and capital formation, Andrew Kahrl's The Land Was Ours traces the histories of African American...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
"Quilt given to Rosa Benson Snoddy by her mother & father when she married Col. Sam Snoddy. For Mary Kate Black." Whole-cloth chintz quilt, probably made by Nancy Miller...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
Review Understanding the creation of social spaces in an unfamiliar landscape is, according to Robert Paulett, a productive way to account for eighteenth-century developments in the American Southeast, particularly in...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
Review When Hernando de Soto's army of six hundred soldiers reached the middle Savannah River in 1540, arriving in what is today South Carolina and Georgia, they likely thought they...