Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...in London from illness cut short her attempts at diplomacy and the promotion of coexistence between the two polities.14 Ibid., esp. 85–158. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as British...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...Communist Party vice-presidential candidate James W. Ford in October 1936, Daniels wrote a scolding editorial denouncing Ericson's action, not because Ford was a communist, but because he was black.22Eagles, Jonathan Daniels...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...Spaces, I am invested in making our journal better and in promoting open-access knowledge, so I spend time thinking about Wikipedia. On my to-do list for a while has been...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...Jupiter, El Sol, that had done such good work. But I have gotten ahead of myself because Guestworker came first. I worked with Cynthia Hill on that because I had...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...Beasts was filmed: "it's a place where ingenuity rules. Planks, low-lying bridges make up the walkways from house to house, so if your bridge gets knocked out, you fill the...
Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
...in a different way. Substance use and misuse is intergenerational trauma that lives unacknowledged in our bodies if we're not actively trying to wrestle with it. Because of action, theater...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
..."plantations," the big house may be extant, but few structures directly related to the enslaved—dwellings, barns, and mills—remain.36See Michael Vlach, Back of the Big House; The Architecture of Plantation Slavery...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...in its advertisements and promotional materials. Even in Democratic Clayton County, campaign spots promoted the creation of a super-arterial highway along Tara Boulevard, but said precious little about the resuscitation...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...for lifetime healthcare. One miner had lost his house and was sleeping in the local union hall. I followed him to a free clinic in Clay County, some distance away,...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...they are used to question social codes that prevent display of non-normative sexuality. Responding to the rouge on a man's face or his carefully curled hair, for instance, Page may...