Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...pales in comparison to states such as New York and Pennsylvania, as well as that of other slave states such as Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland. In fact, between 1850–1860 it...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...first names of immigrants and their family members. They arrived in north Georgia with their four children in 1999 after having lived for ten years in Los Angeles. Better job...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...spirit. If you are interested in the area then you could probably get the same deal on a home in Remington and have a better sense of security and safety....
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...Carolina and his return home to Durango, Mexico. Brother Towns examines the lives of migrant day workers and the receptions they receive moving between Jacaltenango, Guatemala, and Jupiter, Florida. In...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...mob killings. Whereas crowds threatening mob violence murdered their victims approximately thirty-four percent of the time between 1865 and 1894, they did so only eight percent of the time between...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
Review Tammy Ingram explores both more and less than the history of the Dixie Highway, built between 1915 and 1926 as a six-thousand-mile loop from Chicago and other Lake Michigan...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...us that the best we can do in most cases is piece together bits of information about the lives of others. Given this incomplete knowledge, we're better off not passing...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...the 1960s and 1970s, activists promoted a related golden-age vision of egalitarian pastoralism in pre-industrial Appalachia, which they contrasted with the ugliness of strip mining, black lung disease, and other...
Cajun South Louisiana
...so Acadians who came from Nova Scotia to the lower Mississippi River Valley between 1765 and 1803 adapted to the new environment. People who once lived on cod and herring...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...and that southern metal and cotton products would find commercial opportunities in Far Eastern markets.4William H. Taft, "The Winning of the South," Political Issues and Outlooks: Speeches Delivered Between August,...