Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...of the 1920s and later, often met with sharp and widespread disapproval in border societies (22, 41, 113–114). There are critical distinctions, as Díaz notes, between amateur smuggling and professional...
Editors
...William and Mary Allison Dorsey, Swarthmore College Wilma A. Dunaway, Virginia Tech Connie Eble, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Rebecca Edwards, Vassar College Michael Elliott, Emory University Beth English, Princeton...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...the convention. When yellow fever receded from northern port cities after 1800, “Charleston proved to be a better host than those places,” McCandless quips, “in part because it was warmer...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
..."there are several million ways to murder."1James Baldwin, "We Can Change the Country," in The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings, ed. Randall Kenan (New York: Penguin Random House, 2010), 61....
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...Water. The Amistad collection plans to be publically available and free of charge (either online or in person at Amistad) as a digital archive of oral histories in the spring...
Remnants of Flannery
...Jang's [portrait of O'Connor as animal] uses a couple of notable elements of O'Connor's appearance (Those glasses! Those pearls!) to tell a very different story."5Ibid. Hatfield herself has previously made...
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, DC
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: Part 2: White describes the lengths both men went to in an attempt to gain subsidies and credit for their respective railroads Part 3: White shows...
The Nature of Rights
...nature” is a strategy as much a movement, a strategy that can promote democracy through local involvement.[17] In this era of increasing assaults on the democratic rights of humans, expanding...
The Change
...make camp at Qualla Boundary and the Oconaluftee would be free of tourists and filled with snow and those of us who held out forever and had no...
Seneca Quarry
...quarry during the construction of the Smithsonian Castle. While overt evidence confirming that slave labor was used (such as a contract between a slave owner and a contractor to lease...