Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...Nonne’s role in reprinting this piece. Over the next half-century Germans wrote extensively about the United States, particularly about the Louisiana Purchase and its suitability for settlement. Heinrich Schmidt, ca. 1850s....
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...mass military mobilizations during WWII and a growing military job sector.9The United States Census Bureau designated San Antonio the fastest growing city in the United States in 2018: United States...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...as greasy and fatty.23See Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration, A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves (Washington, DC, 1941; Project...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...more substantial narrative of events, see Melissa Fay Greene, The Temple Bombing (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1996). Within fifteen minutes of the blast, staff at United Press International received a call...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...mulatto, found a more open-minded milieu with less racial prejudice where he could exercise liberties not allowed in antebellum New Orleans. In 1837, a black man living in the United...
Palomares Bajo
Palomares Bajo: Photo Essay John Howard, Field (left), Home (center), Strata (right), Palomares, Spain, April 2011. Twenty years after the American annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, the United States...
"Aint that Something?"
Review Since the late nineteenth century, Appalachia has been exploited, sensationalized, or deeply romanticized across literature, art, and popular culture. The "local color" authors after the Civil War depicted stereotypes...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...trains, any shared coach was to be "divided by a partition, designated for the race to which such passenger belongs," while restaurants were subject to still more stringent regulations.19The Code...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...December 4, 1944, 7. Top, Areas of the continental United States believed to be malarious in 1934–1935. Map courtesy of Medical Department, United States Army, Preventative Medicine in World War...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...rice planters for a slave-based plantation economy. Jennison unpacks Georgia's slave codes from 1755, 1765, and 1770 to demonstrate how a Savannah-based, Lowcountry elite eventually seized power. Jennison cautions, however,...