Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...crossing the Ohio River to the North. The Ohio River was the border between the free states of the north and slavery states of the south. Even after crossing the...
The Border South
...free black Americans in the South. Over 55,000 blacks in Virginia were free in 1860, over 80,000 in Maryland, including over 25,000 in the city of Baltimore. Most free blacks...
A City Divided
...(though obviously these codes could and were violated).9On racial social codes, see Leon Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (New York: Knopf, 1998). Perhaps the mixed-race, mixed...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...have two grindstones. One involves interfacing with a machine in ways that are sometimes difficult and tedious, much like archival work. Sometimes we are wrestling with code and how to...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...and race position — made A Southerner Discovers the South a documentary characteristic of its era, which saw many books in the "I've Seen America" mold.58On the "I've Seen America"...
Good-Bye to All That?
...posted on their websites and promoted through all forms of social media, including Facebook. They described the kinds of constructive measures that have worked across Transylvania County to develop environmentally...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...Division, loc.gov/resource/g4390.ct002233. Organized chronologically and thematically, Informed Power begins in a North America without Europeans and ends just as the English solidify their hold in Carolina and Georgia. Dubcovsky, an...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...Press, 2001), 140. In 1942, the federal government had established the Malaria Control in War Areas (MCWA) agency, headquartered in Georgia and tasked with creating malaria-free zones around military sites....
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...as forty anti-Semitic groups operating in the South at the time of the black freedom struggle. Some of these organizations promoted their cause exclusively through propaganda. Others took more direct...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...in its advertisements and promotional materials. Even in Democratic Clayton County, campaign spots promoted the creation of a super-arterial highway along Tara Boulevard, but said precious little about the resuscitation...