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....
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...Black people, the town was originally located on just over one hundred acres in what is now known as Greater Orlando.5United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, "National...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...https://southernspaces.org/2021/undoing-voting-rights-act/. Justice Alito's Remarks from the Bench about how racial bloc-voting "may be due to ideology." Merill v. Mulligan oral argument. Audio courtesy of the Supreme Court of the United...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...Americas. Some half-million enslaved arrived at forty-one documented sites in the United States. At these arrival ports a significant portion of American history began. Relying principally upon information from Voyages:...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...story of sugar. Built by the Havemeyer family in 1856, by 1870 it was refining more than half of the sugar in the United States, producing over 1,200 tons of...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
Introduction Since the 1980s, various individuals and publics have dedicated memorials to LGBTQ communities in the United States, the United Kingdom, and other European countries. Among them are George Segal's...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
...not I'll be arriving too late, what's to be done best done with rifle or shotgun, so make driving the good part, turn off my radio, let the dark close...
#209, Long Meter
...our best spices flow abroad To entertain our Saviour God; And faith and love and joy appear, And every grace be active here. From Lloyd, Benjamin,...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...I saw how, with the best intentions, people would attempt to implement change, perhaps win a victory, and then watch it slide away in a year or two because institutional...