Hurricane Helene Visits Marshall, North Carolina
...twenty-seven feet, four feet higher than the previous record set in 1916. Yesterday’s concerns are facing today’s reality — the town’s total destruction. The wind never materialized at the house....
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...white students returned to the school. "In theory, classes began at Warren County high school today on an integrated basis," the script read, "actually, however, the once all-white school is...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...narrates the struggle over Indian Removal. He details the state of Georgia's campaign of violence and harassment against Cherokees and the national debate over the Indian Removal Act. He notes...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
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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...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...discourse defining the Cajun experience, a narrative colored, in part, by Lomax. In 1977, while still a master's student in folklore at Indiana University, Barry Ancelet and Beausoleil bandleader Michael...
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...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...for the centrality of performance to documentary generally, and not, as Nichols has characterized it, as a recent or "post-modern" development.22Bill Nichols, Blurred Boundaries (Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995): 92-106. To be...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Indiana in 1930, James H. Madison marshals considerable evidence to suggest that racism and racist violence have been central themes in Indiana's history. Yet, in his analysis, he remains committed...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...could smell traces of the enslaved, trapped in time and space; the mixed odors of sweat and human excreta exist there today. Fifteen miles from Cape-Coast Castle is Elmina Castle,...