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...
Ashé: Cultural Arts Cornerstone in New Orleans’ Central City
...The two transformed this raw space into the Ashé Cultural Arts Center to promote, celebrate, and produce works by and about the African and African American experience. Ashé Cultural Arts...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635–1848 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001); Judith Shafer, Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1846–1862 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...Evening Telegraph, Jan. 3, 1894, 9; "Lovers of 'Possums: Indianapolis Epicures Who Fancy the Toothsome Dish," The Indianapolis (IN) Journal, Part Two, Dec. 28, 1902, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015679/1902-12-28/ed-1/seq-13/; "Oh, Carve Dat 'Possum: First Annual...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...University of Kentucky, and an M.A. degree in Folklore from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her 1979 thesis "Economic Influences on German and Scotch-Irish Quilts in Antebellum Rowan County,...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...by quarry owner John Parke Custis Peter, or by slaves that he rented from fellow slaveowners in the area. (After the Civil War, the quarry was worked by Irish and...
Trouble the Land: The City Too Busy to Hate
...(1:08) Narrator: When Grady proclaimed a New South, he coined a phrase and cast an image that Atlanta would promote for decades to come. By the early 1960s, growing Black...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...used to be "Salt Lake," an estuarine habitat typical for coastal Florida. The name changed, however, alongside usage. In the 1920s real estate promoters began pitching new developments around a...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...history and Demography Prior to Euro-American settlement, the Ozarks was sparsely populated. There is archaeological evidence (spearpoints and mastodon and mammoth kill-sites) for Paleo-Indian (12000-8000 BC) and Archaic (8000-1000 BC)...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...to a "hemispheric south" where planters and railroad promoters envisioned business and trade networks across the Mexican borderlands and into Latin America during the last third of the nineteenth century...