Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...plays a prominent role, not only because of the city's central east-west geographic location in the continental United States and its north-south location equidistant between Toronto, Canada, and Monterrey, Mexico,...
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...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...location? Layout and location, Ten Broeck Race Course, 1872. Map by Charles G. Platen. This excerpt from the Platen map shows a "Race Course" three miles west of Savannah, adjacent...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...respect to this decision?" Barbara Creel: Every time I work with a person from a different family, a different community, a different tribe, a different government, I treat that experience...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...many US officials were aware of those numbers. Nonetheless, US leaders who visited postwar Japan retained the impression that masses of people who were poorly dressed and homeless, including orphans...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...removal site. As the home of the Cherokee Nation's most prominent leaders and the location of two military removal stations, Rome, Georgia has much to teach. Measuring Chains and Axes...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...theaters. In addition to technical requirements and internal spatial organization, Hollingshead's theater set a precedent for geographic location. Like the Automobile Movie Theater, located just outside Camden and just over...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...that white workers increasingly found new opportunities elsewhere, chicken plants faced an ever mounting need for cheap labor. Mississipi's method, pamphlet, n.d. Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives and...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...or just lived hand-to-mouth, so [we] had no ties to any establishment . . . . In every women's household there were different women who did different activities and then...