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Lucy Briggs and Sally Ball lived in a world of extremes in antebellum Richmond, Virginia. For Black Virginians the city simultaneously represented the hope of freedom and the horrors of [...]

On February 13, 1830, Jourdan M. Saunders sent a letter from New Orleans to David Burford in Smith County, Tennessee, about fifty miles east of Nashville. Burford was Saunders's brother-in-law [...]

In late 1891 a debate erupted after the North American Review published an article criticizing Jews and their supposed lack of military service. The article, attributed to a U.S. Army [...]

THE COLFAX MASSACRE--DUBBED A "RIOT" BY THE VICTORS--LEFT three white and at least sixty-three Black men dead on Easter Sunday 1873, making it one of Reconstruction's bloodiest racial confrontations. (1) [...]

The Georgia Historical Society is pleased to announce seventeen archival collections are now available for research: Georgia Hussars Records, 1902-1990s (MS 2400); Joseph Folchetti Collection of Bedlow, Halsey, and Parkman [...]

In 1913, W. E. B. Du Bois looked back on the deal African Americans had made with white southerners and declared it a mess of pottage. In return for giving [...]

WET-NURSING IS A UNIQUELY GENDERED KIND OF EXPLOITATION, AND under slavery it represented the point at which the exploitation of enslaved women as workers and as reproducers literally intersected. Feeding [...]

THROUGHOUT MUCH OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, DIPLOMATIC AND economic historians of the antebellum United States defined and dominated the fields of hemispheric relations and American capitalism, respectively. In recent years, [...]

Black Society in Spanish Florida. By Jane Landers. Foreword by Peter H. Wood. Blacks in the New World. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 1999. Pp. xvi, 390. [...]

A NEW GENERATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORIANS HAS BEGUN TO subvert the top-down, uplifting narrative that characterized the earlier literature. These scholars not only have extended the standard movement time [...]

In the Ozark region of northwestern Arkansas, the hamlets of Kingston and Parthenon lie fewer than thirty miles from one another, separated by the rugged terrain of the Boston Mountains [...]

ADDING TO HIS WELL-DESERVED REPUTATION AS AN OPPONENT OF the civil rights movement, Raleigh, North Carolina-based commentator Jesse Helms broadcast a television editorial in 1966 criticizing a recent decision by [...]

In the period after World War II, the U.S. government expertly portrayed the dangers of communism and its primary supporter, the Soviet Union. Thanks to deft propaganda and a vigilant [...]

In 1839 Mary Ashton Rice accepted a position as a schoolteacher on a Virginia plantation. As a Boston native, Rice had not been previously exposed to chattel slavery, but during [...]

IN EARLY SEPTEMBER 1965 A GROUP OF DIGNITARIES FROM SPAIN and Latin America met with Florida state leaders at a luncheon in St. Augustine. The purpose of this luncheon was [...]

ON THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1894, EMMITT D. GALLION, FROM THE Special Examination Division of the U.S. Pension Bureau, discovered that Mary Lee, a forty-four-year-old black Civil War soldier's widow, had [...]

IN JULY 1923 'JINGLE,' THE THEATER CRITIC OF LONDON'S FASHIONABLE Bystander magazine, reviewed a new show at the London Pavilion called Dover Street to Dixie. Produced by Britain's leading theatrical [...]

IT MAY SEEM THERE IS LITTLE LEFT TO EXAMINE ABOUT THE BLACK freedom struggle and its effects on southern institutions of higher education. Exemplary scholarship chronicles how southern officials resisted [...]

IN THE YEARS FOLLOWING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, U.S. relations with Great Britain never looked more promising than they did in the spring of 1783. Encouraged by the favorable terms of [...]

WHEN I MET MY WIFE, GEORGANNE, I TOLD HER I WAS IN ILLINOIS temporarily, that I would soon be going home to the South. Almost two score years later, I [...]

The John Carter Brown Library will award approximately thirty short- and long-term Research Fellowships for the period June 1, 2011-June 30, 2012. Short-term fellowships are available for two to four [...]

Being just a little boy, I couldn't really follow most of what [Grandmother Palmer and her sisters] said.... But slowly, from hearing the stories each passing summer, I began to [...]

DURING THE WINTER OF 1860-1861, PRESIDENT JAMES BUCHANAN, facing what would prove to be the great crisis of the Union, argued, on the one hand, that secession was illegal and [...]

You see, my grandmother explained to me that when a black woman went into a white family's house as the cook and the baby sitter, this is the role of [...]

BY THE LATE 1950s THE AMERICAN SOUTH HAD REACHED ANOTHER crossroads in its eventful history. De jure segregation, a cornerstone of southern life in the first half of the twentieth [...]