A few days before the spring semester was set to begin, I received a telegram-style email from Clarence White: “I love your writings and I think I fit in with…
Editor Update, August 2023: The original title for this post was "Uncovering New Bern's Bloodless Coup of 1898" -- and the word "bloodless" has now been removed, after careful consideration…
Elizabeth Avery Thomas ponders her family legacy as a descendant of enslavers through a technique called speculative nonfiction. As she writes at the close of this piece, 'In my current…