"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...but advised angry blacks that "it might be well to remember that the black man had no rights until the white man gave him that 14th amendment to the Constitution...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...of communism and other obstacles, the conference "would long be remembered," as John Egerton observes, "not for what it achieved, but for what it aspired to and what it attempted."80Egerton, Speak...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...that’s the whole digital humanities thing—who cares!” What I think we need more of are projects that build insights based on digital techniques, and use that to answer a traditional...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...it as episodic or aberrant, something that occurred in but was not really of that place" (9). Long attentive to the history of white racial violence and lynching in the...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...identify others. More than thirty attended that first meeting. Since its inception, the purpose of the club has been to promote interest in street-rodding activities, to create fellowship, and to...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...notes the role of US communists and allied labor radicals in promoting the argument, as the Southern Worker contended, that "the police, the courts, and the 'law enforcing' machinery are...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...University Press, 2009), 4. Ward's story is only one among many that deserve a hearing, but it is also true that Ward's "difference made a difference" that is not often...
A Southern Underground Railroad
...explanations. Drawing from an archive that is decidedly committed to perpetrators, Pressly unpacks stories still "wrapped in mystery" (145), reconstructing negotiations that escaped not only "the most determined [white] planters"...
Palomares Bajo
...Collections Library, Duke University, Durham, NC. This photo essay interrogates the devious discourses and reluctant rhetorics of what Time magazine belatedly called one of the world's twelve "worst nuclear disasters"—what...