Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...of bureaucracy did not nest cleanly. While federal initiative may have prompted action, in Virginia, as in a number of other southern states, the cohabitation registrations came about through state...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...centers on the making of Confederate identity during the Civil War and the use of ceremonies such as Memorial Days and Emancipation Days after the war to construct political identities....
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...named Rose, valued at $700. The full listing reads: Slave Cicero 1,000, slave Sophia 300, slave Jane 400 Slave Jack 800, slave Rose 700, slave David 800, old woman 100...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...this degree of isolation or loneliness before, things that many queer people have been and continue to be all too familiar with, unfortunately so, day to day as many of...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...in America. https://vimeo.com/478092922/d9ece1993b Donald Lawrence and the Tri-City Singers performing "When Sunday Comes." From Bible Stories (1995). For many of the artists in When Sunday Comes, singing gospel was not...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...(now Charleston, South Carolina) up the Savannah River through Augusta, past several Creek Indian towns, and ending in the Chickasaw towns of present-day north Mississippi and west Tennessee. Temporally, the...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...“Bill increasing tax credits for private schools defeated at end of session,” Mississippi Today, May 7, 2024, https://mississippitoday.org/2024/05/07/private-schools-tax-credits-mississippi-legislature/. Why is Mississippi currently an exception to the rush to ESAs? First,...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...flowers achieved with a limited number of colors and characteristic dotted backgrounds in black or blue." More expensive than everyday fabrics, the choice of an imported chintz for a wedding...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...sexual assault in Indian Country. The other day I went out to my mailbox. Hope reigns eternal that someday there will be something good in there, and there was! Instead...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...SECTION 1. The United States shall create a series of commons communities, each designed to include a specified number of households within a larger landscape that will be managed by...