Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...by untraditional circumstances. It originated from the enslaved African community of Davis Bend, Mississippi, which was created, in the 1820s, by slave-plantation owner Joseph Davis as a "model" slave community...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...contested spaces of houses and farms, Paulett looks at an entire river system, the Savannah, and its surrounding landscape. In Paulett's study, the British traders, white and African boatmen, and...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...trio of formerly enslaved cousins, Mound Bayou emerged in the Reconstruction era as a burgeoning example of what African American autonomy could become in the dissolution of slavery.1Joel Nathan Rosen,...
The Bulletin—November 1, 2012
...by Republican Governor Rick Scott. While the reduction in early voting was enacted in order to prevent voter fraud, some African Americans in Florida feel that the changes target African...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...well as class and color lines, I look for imagined black futures in archival holdings. In addition to my research, I work as an assistant curator for the African American...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
Review Few issues roiled the waters of America and the South more so than temperance reform. In "the Alcoholic Republic"—William Rorabaugh's felicitous phrase—the question of prohibition divided and defined individuals...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
Introduction DDT is good for me advertisement, Time, June 30, 1947. Scan by Flickr user Crossett Library. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Early in 1949, Dottie Colson wrote to...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...are some central technologies Digital Yoknapatawpha uses? The user has begun the "Play Narrative" animation for Flags in the Dust, and has reached page 75. Events can also be viewed...
The Shenandoah Valley
...human presence in the region over 10,000 years ago, the Valley was a central corridor for travel, migration, hunting, and planting. The Valley was the homeland for no single tribe,...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...nothing to promote political and economic change. In July 2010 Menendez took the Senate floor to oppose an easing of travel restrictions, remarking that more opportunities for US citizens to...