The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013); Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History (New York: Knopf, 2014); and Edward E....
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...newcomers, moved beyond the black-white binary to include Latinos, and spoke with owners and renters. Downtown Durham (through the haze), May 15, 2008. Photograph by Flickr user bullcitydave. Creative Commons...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...Exhibits in Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona. It was built—as is traditional for all Creek churches—facing east. It is believed that when Hesaketumese {Hesaketvmese} (Christ) comes, he will come from...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...to resettle, build new homes, plant new gardens, and learn about new weather patterns. It demanded a reimagination of who the Cherokee were, how they connected to the world, and...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...a menu that invites users to choose a state within the thirteen-state ARC-designated region. The site directs users to select—to frame by state—one set of images of Appalachia over other...
Palomares Bajo
...others have called the worst nuclear weapons disaster in history. It is sparked by new reports showing continuing elevated levels of radioactivity in and around Palomares and with Wiki-leaked cables...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...she is writing her dissertation on post-Katrina hip-hop and recovery in New Orleans. She has worked as a promoter, artist manager, and musician within the New Orleans hip-hop community since...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...the April 26, 2010 issue of Newsweek. Scan by Flickr user MyEyeSees. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Bottom, portrait of former Texas Governor Ann Richards at the Texas capitol...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...New Mexico, in its locations), Toomer openly acknowledged that he had journeyed south in the 1920s to be closer to the "sources" of his art. Figure 1. Cleo Campbell, nine...
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...the end of 2014. Partners N Crime, Eastover, New Orleans, June 15, 2012. Photograph by Holly Hobbs. Courtesy of Holly Hobbs. Countless members of New Orleans' creative communities lost their...