Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...at 94 in 1982. During the 1980s, Houston endured the double impact of HIV/AIDS and the long economic fallout of the 1981 oil bust. The number of queer businesses began...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...Great Migration. Between 1916 and 1970, six million African Americans left the cotton fields and segregation of the rural South for northern, midwestern, and western cities, changing the American cultural...
The Carolina Piedmont
...significant numbers. Enslaved African Americans made up ten percent of the Carolina Piedmont's population in the 1760s. By 1800, only two or three counties had black populations of more than...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...soon congregated there helped spur the preservation movement largely responsible for sparing this historic district from the bulldozer revolution soon to scar many American cities. Saxon's appreciative writing also drew...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...World in Vilas, North Carolina, frames Appalachia in ways that foreground nostalgia for an imagined simpler and remote American past (Figure 18). A closer look reveals the smartphone in the...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...to a nearby oil and gas field, the industry and state agencies expressed serious reservations. Jason P. Theriot's American Energy, Imperiled Coast chronicles the development of science and policy surrounding the...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...The project released its database of descendants in May 2019 with American Ancestors by the New England Historic Genealogical Society (see the GU272 Descendants, 1785–2000 database, www.americanancestors.org/search/databasesearch/2756/gu272-descendants-1785-2000). Third, historian Sharon...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...by Black Americans in 1887, represents not only the historical significance of free Black towns but also the contemporary roles Black landscape architects can play in their protection and growth....
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...the Denson book (Cobb 1989, 7). (For an essay on Black Sacred Harp singing in Mississippi, see: Chiquita Walls's "Mississippi's African American Shape Note Tradition." On African American Sacred Harp...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...customs, and practices designed to assure that African Americans could not vote or could not have any political influence if they were allowed to vote in small numbers in border...