DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...25, no. 4 (1945): 4. A jar of Rawleigh's DDT. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 3.0. But a countervailing narrative of DDT also emerged. Local media...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...preventing Federal reinforcements of McPherson and Schofield's armies and then engaging Thomas once the battle became general. Hardee's division commanders, Confederate division commanders whose units completed Hardee's Night March, clockwise...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Hell did the nigger go?" See Jessa Reid Bolling and Rebecca Griesbach, "Autherine Lucy Foster Memorialized with Historical Marker," The Crimson White, September 18, 2017, 3, http://now.dirxion.com/Crimson_White/library/Crimson_White_09_18_2017.pdf; AL.com, "Autherine Lucy...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...celebration," as whites and blacks remained unknown to each other across the divides of separated societies and an anguished past.67Ibid., 391, 397. At the commemoration day ceremonies for the Weeping...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...all worked to use the new medium to their advantage. Logo for the US Federal Communications Commission. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Television became a subject of scrutiny within the politics...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...Deep South via Norfolk and to compete with steamboat companies for the freight. It bypassed every major town on the Eastern Shore, created its own private harbor and facilities, and...
Genres of Southern Literature
...1837. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Bottom, Table of contents to the Southern Literary Messenger, December, 1835. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Images are in the public domain. We might begin to address...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...1836, Copies 1, 2, 3, and 4, Louise Frederick Hays, comp., Georgia Military Affairs (1941), GAs, 123–24 (hereafter Hays, comp., GMA); Floyd County company elections May 28 and June 10,...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...compete for the "Golden Chicken" trophy.4Chris Allen Baker, "Battle for Golden Chicken Enters Its 80th Year," Scott County Times, October 21, 2009, accessed November 6, 2013, http://www.sctonline.net/news/article_2e8efddf-5c83-5935-9ea3-eac434b9b7cf.html. Typical for poultry-producing...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...a Black social and political club that operated from 1975 into the 1980s.81For more on The Houston Committee, see "Houston Committee," Upfront 1, no. 2 (April 28, 1978): 2. http://www.houstonlgbthistory.org/Houston80s/Upfront/Upfront-V1-1-2.compressed.pdf....