Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...remain and tend the land as their ancestors had for centuries. In 1998, UNESCO named Viñales a World Heritage site.2"World Heritage List," UNESCO, accessed March 15, 2012, http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/840. Some residents...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...ferries, etc. delineated correctly and faithfully." The maps were atlases of opportunity for speculators and entrepreneurs. Enterprising Georgians promoted themselves as land appraisers, guides, innkeepers, attorneys, and merchandizers in the...
Deep Ellum Blues
...ownership of all its public land, making the State of Texas the nation's largest land promoter, aside from Uncle Sam himself. And in Texas, no city was so conceived and...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...have two grindstones. One involves interfacing with a machine in ways that are sometimes difficult and tedious, much like archival work. Sometimes we are wrestling with code and how to...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...to whites. Black novelist Charles Chesnutt noted in an article written in 1901, "If there is any choice of location" when it came to positioning such rooms, "the Negro always...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...reconstruct Bishop and other cave guides as avatars of slave self-empowerment. While these historical figures found ways of confusing the behavioral codes of slavery in their everyday interactions with cave...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...that is often referred to as a "tin." It is windowless, but has three doors. The front sports several faded, hand-painted signs. One describes the dress code by saying "not...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...and space, he argues, though consumption creates a portal through which a listener can inhabit this audiotopia.2Audiotopia is Josh Kun's term. Audiotopia represents the visceral, emotional, and intellectual experiences of...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...bondpersons. Antoine comfortably and confidently addresses a nameless white listener, an individual about whom he feels no rigid class or race barriers. Moreover, this man, who serves as the frame...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...included in this presentation. Explore the playlist in a browser, in the Spotify app, or below. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3jb3B4673oywHk1hVIuAVs?si=yobWs0T3QRezeDMPcZJpOQ Spotify playlist featuring additional blues songs George Mitchell recorded in the Lower Chattahoochee...