Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Douglas Martin, "Julius Chambers, a Fighter for Civil Rights, Dies at 76," New York Times, August 6, 2013, https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/07/us/julius-chambers-a-fighter-for-civil-rights-dies-at-76.html; "Hawkins v. North Carolina State Board of Education," Race Relations Law...
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...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...Fus' Rate Bargain'", 67, 68. Doesticks also tells of Daphne, a young woman who was wrapped in a shawl when ordered to mount the auction block. Buyers, bothered that they...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
Introduction Mark Auslander, The white section of the Oxford City Cemetery, Oxford, Georgia, 2000. My title, "the other side of paradise," is taken from a commentary by Ms. Emogene Williams,...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...Allen (who was also my dissertation director) suggested that primary source materials could be complemented by the creation of an online vehicle for scholarship. From our first conversations about founding...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...centrally related to claims of authenticity and marketability. Before the Dirty South, artists from places like Atlanta, Houston, or Miami were not completely excluded from rap, but seemed compelled to...
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 Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...this question, the poetic voice—or rather, the voices in the communal register of this composition—portrays the US military intervention as an added catastrophe for the very poor.21On the importance of...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...backdrop of the Eastern Shore of Virginia is predominantly one of change, both on long- and short-term scales. The current mainland-marsh-lagoon-barrier island complex has its origins in the sea level...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...May 2008, ; and Jay Allen Sanford, "Drive-In Theaters in San Diego: Complete Illustrated History 1947 thru 2008," San Diego Weekly Reader, 1 August 2008, online version, http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/aug/01/drive-in-theaters-in-san-diego-complete-illustrate/. When Atlanta's...