Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...suggests that the unhealthy nature of the climate was increasingly taken for granted. Cover of Gottfried Duden's Report on a Journey to the Western States of North America (Columbia: University of Missouri...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Claudia Leal, Landscapes of Freedom: Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2018); Oscar de la Torre, The People of the River:...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...vision of Louisiana in the documentary classic Louisiana Story. The making of that Louisiana story follows Flaherty's standard format. He created "narrative documentaries," what we might call today "docudramas." But...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...lives by escaping slavery in the South on the underground railroad and crossing the Ohio River—are quite similar to Mexican people and others today risking their lives by crossing the...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...26 percent—adding as many as 1 ½ million children in extreme poverty since 2008. During the last two years, the western states have had the largest rise of extremely poor...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...broke free from their enslaving masters and ran the show by themselves. Having made a fortune in a decade, they retired to western North Carolina, bought land, built houses, married...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...and updated articles related to the publication. Then we told that we were self-promoting and should stop; also some of our contributions were removed. As the managing editor at Southern...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...Landscape and Language among the Western Apache (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996). Yet it was not until 2008 that the city of Savannah and the Georgia Historical Society placed...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...repositories. Indeed, in today's world, Africana archives are challenged to develop strategies for mining their collections and producing programs and events that help elevate their public visibility. In today's world,...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...the 1960s and 1970s, activists promoted a related golden-age vision of egalitarian pastoralism in pre-industrial Appalachia, which they contrasted with the ugliness of strip mining, black lung disease, and other...