Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...majority of the young African American students lived in a household with a television. Nearly 70 percent owned televisions in their homes, and only 5 percent lived in homes without...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...to the enslaved. Families, who had been together for all of their lives on Butler's Island or Hampton, were torn apart and dispersed; many of them never saw each other...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...Carolina (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012), 276. We all live in communities. In a sense, no one really lives in the United States but in neighborhoods, towns, and counties....
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
Blog Post In a 2021 case from Arizona, Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., issued an opinion of the US Supreme Court—calling it a "fresh look"—that sabotages Section 2 of the...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
Review The present system of flood control in the Mississippi Valley is a compromise resulting from a long and complicated interplay among interest groups. The current solution to the problem...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...nonwhites from the record. Regardless of his singular focus, Jennison makes clear that by 1800, Georgia's conservative revolutionaries could broaden their perspective when confronted by the distressing message, reach, and...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
Review Any historical account requires a framing device—temporal, thematic, or geographical—establishing the scope of enquiry. A Caribbean history typically invokes fairly settled geographical parameters that delimit the area to insular...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...have created a planet where children can be safe, but we have not. One in ten American children live in deep poverty; 2.8 million children live in households that have...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...our own lives whom we love but can never understand completely, even if we live in and out of one another's pockets. Director Richard Linklater's previous experimental film project involving...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...black first graders who lived within their zones. (Nothing was said about how rezoning would affect the black schools to which those children would have gone, or about whites moving...