A Conversation with Digital Historians
...ways to go about studying the things that I am interested in: Whitman, Richmond, nationalism, and nineteenth-century American culture and history. It’s also a way to pay the bills, which...
The Carolina Piedmont
...of the Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line Railway offered a direct route from New York to New Orleans and further shifted the region's orientation away from the Carolina coast. Cotton agriculture,...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...way we inhabit places, an intellectual project that would, years later, change the way I looked at my hometown of Spartanburg, and possibly even change the way it looked at...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Unearthing their worlds sheds light on a distinct history of emancipation that did not fully align with liberalism's trajectory, pushing us to move away from the teleological notion that modern...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...at the crossroads of the railroad and U.S. 11, just off the highway, a place where the growing number of mexicano workers can send envios of money home. I grew...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...master-slave relation. At least half a dozen slaves ran away from Arlington over the years before he died in 1857. And there was an incident with an overseer on one...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...for best film, and Quvenzhané Wallis, his spunky, firebreathing star, may be crowned best actress. In the movie she plays the part of one of Louisiana's Katrina-surviving, throwaway children, but...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
The Shenandoah Valley
...the same ways as their neighbors in the Valley throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Menu on the Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, 1960. Courtesy of the New York...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?" "Summer Water and Shirley" By Durango Mendoza Originally published in Prairie Schooner, volume XL, number 3 (Fall 1966) It was in the summer that had...