Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...and political in-fighting. By the 1960s, while attention was on the southern United States in the fight for civil rights and political enfranchisement, Mound Bayou, like many other Black towns...
Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India
...time, it is said: best of all, through quick economic growth and expanding opportunities and education around the globe. I believe the present work is necessary also because, for all...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...black abolitionist Sarah Parker Remond alongside the image. Taken from an 1862 abolitionist speech, "The Negroes In the United States of America," Remond's quotation illustrates the centrality of slave labor...
Sowing The Seed Underground
Presentation Part 2: Ray overviews the modern extinction of many food seed varieties and the industrialization of US agriculture About the Author Janisse Ray was born in Baxley, Georgia, in 1962...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...© United States Postal Service. By reframing the history of coastal Carolina, Mulcahy succeeds in rendering "both the Lowcountry and the islands less anomalous within the larger context of colonial...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...compare interstate and intrastate migrants with urban hires? A Slave-Coffle passing the Capitol, ca. 1815. Illustration by unknown artist. Originally published in Cullen and Howard's Popular History of the United...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...History of Environmental Racism in the United States (New York: New York University Press, 2015); Mark Fiege, The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States (Seattle: University...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...jurisdictions see "Section 5 Covered Jurisdictions," United States Department of Justice, accessed May 21, 2013, http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/sec_5/covered.php. Congress enacted Section 5 because state and local officials habitually obstructed the voting rights...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...and turned their eyes from the chalkboard, and United States history, to a Kafkaesque-sized cockroach making his (or her) way leisurely across the classroom floor, giant antennae twitching as it navigated...
The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War
...be delivered at Harvard University in 2007, and on a history of the United States from 1840 to 1900, to be published in the Penguin history of the United States....