Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...Edmund Pettus Bridge Brings Fame, Fortune, to Selma," Montgomery Advertiser, January 5, 1992. Binding memories to landscape, the bridge at Selma locates transitions from one time and space to another....
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...have become permanent inmates of a carceral landscape: mute and nearly mummified human sacrifices to a commodity-producing global machinery. Damian Alan Pargas does not quibble with the argument that slaveholding...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...one another. A soundscape loop presents a range of first person commentaries, including WPA oral histories, about slave sales. In its new location, the sack is hung entirely vertically, with...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...in turn, helped shape the development of ideas about American exceptionalism. Incendie du Cap [Burning of Cape Francais], Saint-Domingue, 1820. Frontispiece by unknown creator. Originally published in Saint-Domingue, ou Histoire...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...associate professor of English at Miami University of Ohio where she teaches early American literature, culture, and environment. She is the author of Liquid Landscape: Geography and Settlement at the Edge of...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...music landscape of the late 1970s and 1980s because their members liked to play in all the meanings of the term: to participate, to perform, to move, and to pretend....
Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities
...toward things that are farther away — as a rough analogue, though in reverse, to the historical layering process that formed the cityscape. In the parts of these cities that...
Whiskey and Geography
...and through protests they made it clear that whiskey was their only source of cash and their way out of debt. Taxing that main means of escape from dire poverty...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...for slaves in the Deep South, slaves became more likely to run away. Border slave-owners and slaves made bargains that mitigated the mutual threats of southward sale and northward escape....
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...succumbing to the effects of smallpox, treaties, and armed conflict. At first, the self-sufficient farmers in this heavily wooded landscape owned few slaves. Enmeshed in a spreading web of neighbors...