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CAROLINE WIGGINTON University of North Carolina Press, 2022 306 pp. How we tell the stories of Indigenous material objects, both functional and decorative, is a matter that has long concerned [...]

Following the publication of a 2022 special issue in the journal Mobilities, several of the contributing authors and editors gathered virtually on July 26, 2022. Drawing upon the work included w the collection called 'Mobilizing Indigeneity and Race Within and Against Settler Colonialism,' the participants discuss how they came to the subject of mobilities, how this concept impacts their work, and the ways it intersects with the fields of Ethnic Studies and Indigenous Studies. The special issue editors Carpio, Barraclough, and Barnd interview and facilitate the discussion between authors Vasquez Ruiz, Toomey, Katz, and Fraga. This article includes a reading list of scholarship used for the special issue on race, Indigeneity, and mobilities. KEYWORDS Mobilities, Research methods, Geography, Indigenous studies, Settler colonialism, Race, Borders, Architecture, Digital postcards, Tourism, HOW YOU ENGAGE IN MOBILITY IS A VERY PERSONAL, EVERYDAY THING GENEVIEVE CARPIO [GC]: I'd like to begin by asking what brought each of you to mobility studies? IRIT KATZ [...]

The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Policing from Segregation to Gentrification. By Anne Gray Fischer. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Pp. 312. $29.95 (cloth); $24.99 [...]

ONTARIO AND WOODBURN, OREGON, share many characteristics. Historically both towns depended heavily on an agricultural economy, farms surround both towns geographically, and large numbers of farmworkers reside in both places, [...]

Irvin J. Hunt Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022 288 pages, 21 black-and-white illustrations, 1 map ISBN: 9781469667942, [...]

Count the Dead: Coroners, Quants, and the Birth of Death as We Know It. By Stephen Berry. The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era. (Chapel Hill: [...]

Against Sex: Identities of Sexual Restraint in Early America. By Kara M. French. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Pp. 218. $95.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). What role did [...]

Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City. By Gregory Samantha Rosenthal. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Pp. 288. $95.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paperback); $24.99 (e-book). [...]

The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century P. GABRIELLE FOREMAN, JIM CASEY, AND SARAH LYNN PATTERSON, EDITORS University of North Carolina Press, 2021 364 pp. This exciting [...]

The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution: Slavery and the Spirit of the American Founding SIMON J. GILHOOLEY Cambridge University Press, 2022 350 pp. Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence ROBERT G. PARKINSON Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture and University of North Carolina Press, 2021 256 pp. Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery BRUCE A. RAGSDALE Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021 368 pp. Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States SAMANTHA SEELEY Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture and University of North Carolina Press, 2021 368 pp., Slavery is a lens through which academics, journalists, and members of the general public are increasingly looking to learn about the founding of the United States. Some people might prefer [...]

Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding US Immigration for the Twenty-First Century by A. Naomi Paik (University of California Press, 2020) Dr. A. Naomi Pair's scholarly contributions to the expansion of [...]

Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia. Emily Hilliard. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Pp. xv + 277, foreword, introduction, map, photographs, acknowledgments, [...]

Kojin Karatani, Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility. Trans. Gavin Walker. London: Verso Books, 2020. 160 pp. Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. 3rd [...]

Historic preservation and race are inextricably linked in the US. The questions of what to preserve as historic sites, how to interpret these histories, and how to unearth marginalized, often racialized histories at existing historic sites have been taken up by numerous scholars. However, despite this vital atention to the buildings and indoor educational spaces of public historic sites, there has been a dearth of investigation in public history scholarship into the outdoor spaces: the supposedly neutral landscapes that surround preserved or reconstructed buildings. In this article, I draw on cultural geography and geographies of memory to argue that historic site landscapes, far from being neutral backdrops, are vital to examine for the ways in which they construct a version of history in place. Through semi-structured interviews, textual analysis, and participant observation at three state historic sites in central North Carolina, I examine historic site landscapes as spaces of compromise and denaturalize a visual genre of historic site landscapes that is not racially neutral. KEYWORDS: Cultural geography, Public history, Race, US South, Historic preservation, INTRODUCTION History education in the US is a contentious topic, particularly regarding slavery, racism, and white supremacy. Confederate monuments (McFarland et al. 2019), history textbooks (Greenlee 2019), and ongoing debate [...]

Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics by Dr. Anastasia C. Curwood (The University of North Carolina Press) is a fascinating and timely book that traces the political trajectory [...]

A New Kind of Youth: Historically Black High Schools and Southern Student Activism, 1920-1975. By Jon N. Hale. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Pp. xii, 336. Paper, [...]

A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg. Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater. By A. Wilson Greene. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill: University of [...]

The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856-1861. By Lauren N. Haumesser. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Pp. xii, [...]

Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination: An Artist's Reckoning with the South. By Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Pp. xiv, 160. $40.00, [...]

The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South. By Michael Ayers Trotti. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Pp. xiv, 251. Paper, $32.95, [...]

Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans. By Emily A. Owens. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Pp. xviii, [...]

Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp. By J. Brent Morris. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Pp. [xii], 244. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-6825-3.) [...]

Rubber and the making of Vietnam: An ecological history, 1897-1975 By MICHITAKE ASO Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Pp. 426 pp. Maps, Tables, Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index. [...]

Inventing Disaster: The Culture of Calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the Johnstown Flood CYNTHIA A. KIERNER University of North Carolina Press, 2019 286 pp. Disasters are hard to avoid [...]

Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon WILLIAM L. DAVIS University of North Carolina Press, 2020 264 pp. When, during his Western [...]

Primary Literature Douglass, Frederick. ''What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?' (1852).' In The Speeches of Frederick Douglass: A Critical Edition, edited by John R. McKivigan, Julie Husband, [...]

Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Work to Divide the Heartland. By Kristy Nabhan-Warren. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Pp. xxii, 280. $19.95. ISBN: 978-1-469-66349-4.) In [...]

In the twenty-first century, the United States has witnessed the emergence of popular athletes whose celebrity status revolved around their Christian faith. (1) Famed quarterback Tim Tebow typifies this trend, [...]

Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia. By Emily Hilliard. (Chapei Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Pp. xviii, 277. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-7162-8; cloth, $99.00, [...]

Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life. By Elizabeth D. Leonard. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Pp. xxvi, 365. $36.00, ISBN 978-1-4696-6804-8.) Perhaps no [...]

Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South. By Viola Franziska Muller. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Pp. xiv, 248. Paper, $32.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-7106-2; [...]

Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America. By Randall Balmer. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Pp. xii, 177. $25.00, ISBN 978-1-4696-7006-5.) I grew up Jewish [...]

At War with King Alcohol: Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War. By Megan L. Bever. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Pp. x, [...]

Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South. By Caroline Grego. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Pp. xviii, 293. Paper, [...]