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...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...of Illinois Press, 1997); Bruce Hevly and John Findlay, eds., The Atomic West (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998); John Findlay and Bruce Hevly, Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the...
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...
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...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...we had our club meetings, and so forth and so on. Most of these homes around here are equipped that way."4Henry Herbert Bankston, interview by author, April 12, 2012. A...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...city's users.11Between May 1923 and December 1929, the Times-Picayune published at least three hundred stories with references to marijuana, roughly one per week. The number of articles mentioning marijuana more...
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...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...high number but nothing like comparative statistics in the central or southern parts of the state.59For a good understanding of these numbers, see Megginson, African American Life, 8. Consider how...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...of an argument. When talking about region, we all think we know what we're talking about, and we tend to use the word in scores of different ways, and that...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...glorifies nor sanctifies. Nichols proceeds with care, illustrating the ways in which all intimacies are negotiated and far from simple. Midway through Loving, after living for some years in exile...