Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...living with malaria. For instance . . . the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company in Taylor County, Florida, where we worked in 1936–1937 employed about 700 people to maintain a working force...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...and a measure of self-pride, myself included."8Al Blair, letter to John Biggers, March 1978, John Biggers Papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library, Emory University. House of the Turtle, pre-installation,...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...dynamic for this particular borderland, at least. For some, this correlation between ideology and geography was fully evident at the time. Stowe, for instance, offers an intriguing observation on the...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...memorialized notes the collective and willful forgetting by Americans about slavery. Taking off from the installation of the first public civil rights monument at the market "honoring the struggle for...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
..."Confederate Flag Rally," along the highways of Walton, Newton, and Rockdale counties. Both events started at 10:00 am, and began and ended at sites in Monroe about a mile away...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...it." And that was the black couple that he watched.21Ray Smith, interview with author, August 10, 2006. Jimmy Peatross and Joan Buck tell a related story about learning how to do The Strand...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...live formally on December 11, 2014, with a launch party from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at Cafe Instanbul in New Orleans. The evening will feature Nesby Phips DJing, with a...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...her death occurred. Sample prints from the first instance of The Children Don't Count in MARBL's Kennedy & Sons collection remembers Chicago children who died in 1992. The activist motivations...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...composite narrative based on this interview and an unrecorded interview with the author on 10 September 2003. Additional Castillo quotes in this essay are composites from these interviews. On the...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...wellspring of the “ultimate traditional Sacred Harp singers.”2Kiri Miller, Traveling Home, Sacred Harp Singing and American Pluralism, University of Illinois Press, 2008, 102. Miller’s book, which includes a substantive discussion...