Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...'60s and early '70s in Alfred McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Central America, Colombia (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2003), 387–460....
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...E-mail correspondence and telephone conversation, April 20–21, 2009. In future disasters, search and rescue personnel will abandon the painted graphics used after Katrina, and proceed stocked with stacks of low-residue...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...was located on high ground north of the railroad tracks, opposite Oakland Cemetery. Confederate Memorial Day ceremonies, Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia, April 26, ca. 1881, Leslie's Illustrated Weekly. Sketch by James Henry...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker S. Wright Kennedy is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Rice University. His primary area of interest is the integration...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...built environment and the experiences of its inhabitants—mark the city's particularities. Increasing numbers of cars, trolleys, buses, and taxis enabled movement between downtown and suburbs; rural and urban areas; "colored"...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...Transformation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005). Applying Sewell to the Catawbas affords Beck a fresh approach to questions of Native historiography. In applying social theory to coalescence, Beck argues...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...the Civil War. Section 27 evokes a past containing the experiences of the enslaved who lived here, the contrabands who congregated during the war here, and the emancipated citizens who...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...magazine’s Japan edition. Newspapers from the Memphis Commercial Appeal to the New York Times have published descriptions and photos. The floor plan of the lounge has been analyzed as an...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Illinois, 1825-1870 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978); Eric Foner, ed., The New American History (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997); Patricia Nelson Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West(New...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...had orphaned her. Hungry and alone, she was found wandering the road.29Ibid., 167. Yellow fever burial, Memphis, Tennessee, September 21, 1878. Illustration by unknown creator, published by Frank Leslie's Illustrated...