Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
Suburbanizing Atlanta, Georgia, March 31, 2009. Photograph by Maik. Courtesy of Maik, CC BY-ND. Atlanta metro region is known by many titles: as the "capital of the New South" thanks...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...1849. Vague and clumsy references to letters in code and cyphers in his correspondence directed to Barrett made his situation look damning. One newspaper from North Carolina noted that if it...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...2011 by The University of Georgia Press. Other recent poetry and prose books include The Dead Father Poems (Horse & Buggy Press, 1999), The Best of the Kudzu Telegraph (Hub...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...the possibility of being unable to meet the water needs of its residents. For Manganiello, policy director at the Georgia River Network and an environmental historian, the 2008 crisis raises...
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...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...of Washington, the 1818 Treaty at Creek Agency, and the 1821–25 Treaty of Indian Springs, all Muscogee lands in Georgia were ceded. Emogene Williams, Newton County, Georgia. Photograph by and courtesy...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...internal politics in just one state: Georgia. Ingram defends this choice on the basis that Georgia had more Dixie Highway mileage than most other states, was heavily populated but poorly...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...of the US South (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009); Ricardo B. Contreras, "The Nuevo South Action Research Collaborative: A Model of Community Engagement and Service-learning in Eastern North Carolina...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...desegregation.5Crenshaw, 376. Pre-Brown Map showing the location of Mableton, Georgia, 2012. Virginia Ward's people were "Indians from Black Hawk Hill," and they had owned property in Mableton for many years....
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...fellow conspirators, tasting two thousand oysters from all along the Gulf Coast. It was the first symposium hosted by Foodways Texas, an organization dedicated to preserving, promoting, and celebrating the...