Black Women, Marronage, and Rebellion in the Great Dismal Swamp
Out of the Great Dismal Swamp, a huge morass of swampland straddling the Virginia and North Carolina eastern seaboard, there emerged a distinct culture of enslaved insurgency and fugitive subversion. Maroons who fled enslavement and resettled in wilderness spaces utilized the deep interior swamps to establish permanent, multigenerational ......
Race, Geographic Mobility, and Popular Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
Movement-who moves, where they move, and how they move-has long been perceived as a racial threat in the United States. To better understand why, Colin Anderson examines how popular culture played a central role in shaping these perceptions during the transformative period of Greater Reconstruction (1845-1900). From sheet music and lithographs to ......
Race, Geographic Mobility, and Popular Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
Movement-who moves, where they move, and how they move-has long been perceived as a racial threat in the United States. To better understand why, Colin Anderson examines how popular culture played a central role in shaping these perceptions during the transformative period of Greater Reconstruction (1845-1900). From sheet music and lithographs to ......
Today's Supreme Court justices bristle at the label "politicians in robes," insisting that they operate above the fray of partisan politics. But for the first century of the nation's history, the Court was unmistakably a political institution, both by design and in practice. Justices were fully expected to engage in partisan politics-there was no ......
The Sufis and Sultans of the Makli Necropolis, 1380-1660
Established in the late fourteenth century in what is now Sindh Province, Pakistan, the Makli necropolis grew over three centuries to a site of more than seventy monumental tombs and mosques, and hundreds, if not thousands, of graves. Makli's distinctive architecture sheds light on the intersection of transregional artistic styles through its ......
The Sufis and Sultans of the Makli Necropolis, 1380-1660
Established in the late fourteenth century in what is now Sindh Province, Pakistan, the Makli necropolis grew over three centuries to a site of more than seventy monumental tombs and mosques, and hundreds, if not thousands, of graves. Makli's distinctive architecture sheds light on the intersection of transregional artistic styles through its ......
How Californios, Land Conflicts, and Race Shaped the Golden State
Prior to US conquest, a group of elite, mixed-race Mexicans called Californios nurtured the dream of patria chica ("small homeland") in what is now the state of California. Californios' settler dreams of wealth and privilege depended upon controlling Indigenous land and labor, but after Anglo settlers and the US Army arrived, Californios struggled ......
How Californios, Land Conflicts, and Race Shaped the Golden State
Prior to US conquest, a group of elite, mixed-race Mexicans called Californios nurtured the dream of patria chica ("small homeland") in what is now the state of California. Californios' settler dreams of wealth and privilege depended upon controlling Indigenous land and labor, but after Anglo settlers and the US Army arrived, Californios struggled ......
Set in Paris around 1750, The Enlightenment in Crisis places students amid the intellectual and political tension of the Enlightenment. France is Europe's cultural powerhouse: Its language, fashions, and luxury goods shape tastes across the continent, and Paris draws artists, writers, and travelers from afar. Yet within this intellectual moment ......
