Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...of a number of nineteenth-century railroads whose proprietors wished to emphasize that their routes were more direct than those of competing roads. Black travelers described it in a discrimination complaint...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...a scene from Louisiana Story, Weeks Island, Louisiana, c. 1947. Courtesy of Standard Oil (New Jersey) Collection, Special Collections, University of Louisville. For the United States growing into its role...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...Melo's most recent drama, Cádiz en José Martí (Festival de Teatro Iberoamericano de Cádiz, 2020), he dramatizes the mythic national hero of the island, revolutionary figure José Martí (1853–1895), by...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...venue to the "Race Course," and reduced the number of persons for sale: Joseph Bryan’s Advertisements for the “Sale of Slaves”, The Savannah Daily Morning News, February 27, 1859. Mortimer...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...Prize, "Humberto Ríos Labrada," Goldman Environmental Prize: Islands & Island Nations 2010, accessed March 15, 2012, http://www.goldmanprize.org/2010/islands Conclusion: A Call for Exchange Charles D. Thompson, Jr., Royber Pimental Valido shows...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...distribution and have generated wealth. But the consequences of those decisions, and others, especially those connected with "selling" Memphis by offering typically southern industrial recruitment incentives, marketing cheap land and...
Elegy for the Native Guards
...gulls overhead trailing the boat—streamers, noisy fanfare— all the way to Ship Island. What we see first is the fort, its roof of grass a lee— half reminder of the...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...or visited the island-city. Yet you know Key West is not paradise; just as queer lives have found its borders to be an island-enclave—a sanctuary—it has also served as a...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...number slightly above the percentage of the Asian school-age population. Only white students and students with Asian ancestries were in private schools in numbers that exceeded or generally matched their...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (New York: Hill and Wang, 1978), 9. Noting changes in technology and the rise of the "play movement," Kasson suggests Coney Island was...