Religion and the US South
...evangelists, and congregational-based authority all promoted acceptance of Protestantism among the Cherokees and other Southeastern Indians. When the federal government forced removal of the Five Civilized Tribes to the Indian...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...and a fatal disease seated and gnawing at his vitals."36"Death of John M. Barrett, Esq.," New Castle (IN) Courier, reprinted in Indiana State Sentinel (Indianapolis), April 11, 1850. The paper...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...in the South," South Today, October 1969, 1. By the 1970s, as many public schools in the South were being desegregated for the first time, promoters of private schools were...
Genres of Southern Literature
...for southern literature. This tradition is not without irony, given the other directive that has long governed southern literary study: the emphasis on promoting "internal" or a-historical, non-contingent readings of...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...by hand, using the coding view in Dreamweaver. I tried to code it all in xhtml. As we brought on additional students to help—Sarah Toton, Steve Bransford, Paul O'Grady, Jere...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...came to have the support of the Gay Political Caucus and the Metropolitan Community Church, both organizations invested in promoting the respectability of gay people. Time would prove the MCA's...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...Viranjini Munasinghe describes the plight of marginalized East Indians in the colonially derived West Indies Creole communities.29Viranjini Munasinghe, "Theorizing World Culture through the New World: East Indians and Creolization," American...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...volatile—trading and diplomatic relationships with Indian peoples throughout the Mississippi River Valley. The lack of native perspectives in the volume is particularly unfortunate since much of what Europeans referred to as...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...Lieutenant General John Bell Hood, commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. Photographic print. Hood's leadership at Chickamauga won him a promotion to lieutenant general on February 11, 1864, and...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...powerful identities and senses of place.2William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England (New York: Hill and Wang, 1983); Keith H. Basso, Wisdom Sits...