"Tell It": The Civil Rights Struggle in Tuscaloosa
...city officials, some white businessowners, and white moderates such as the Tuscaloosa News editor Buford Boone disputed the efficacy of violence and the political and economic risks of public protests,...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...years of planning and a 2009 amendment to a City Code that barred new monuments in the plaza celebrating historical events occurring after 1821.16David Nolan, interview with the author, March...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
Review New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition, a compelling collection of photography and analysis on the ever-changing positions, roles, and meanings of Afro-diasporic cultural expressions in New Orleans,...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...during his participation in Whig Party politics, especially as a newspaper editor, a task that combined both national and regional interests. Hooper and Longstreet both gained national reputations after New...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...like a new kind of literary genre, what she calls "aural literature."11Katy Waldman, "The Gorgeous New True Crime Podcast S-Town is Like Serial but Satisfying," Slate, March 30, 2017, http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2017/03/30/s_town_the_new_true_crime_podcast_by_the_makers_of_serial_reviewed.html....
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...World the Slaves Made (New York: Random House, 1972) and Ann Hagedorn, Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Undergound Railroad (New York: Simon and Schuster,...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...Barnard for The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, "Le Mulâtre" ("The Mulatto") by Victor Séjour (1817–1874), a New Orleans free man of color, was initially published in the March...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...buildings and equipment, newer textbooks, higher levels of teacher training, smaller pupil-teacher ratios, closer administrative and school board oversight. Protesters in the street on the day Nashville schools were desegregated,...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...the Midwest. Ten minutes later he has forgotten and again assumes I have been traveling through the South."5James W. Loewen, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism. (New York: The New...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...new Cherokee laws and reject the proposed constitutional form of governance.15See Mooney’s History, 113–14; William G. McLoughlin, Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986), 191–92, and...