A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
...importance of race in persistent southern distinctiveness Part 6: Egerton calls for further research, highlighting a list of potential contributions about neglected subjects About John Egerton John Egerton was born in...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...on that question, I want to close with a poem of mine, dedicated to the memory of my friend John Finlay (1941-1991): Opening the Book on Tomorrow John Finlay died...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...changes. Drawn by abundant natural resources and state governments promising low-wage and non-unionized labor and cheap (or free) land, military installations sprang up and expanded, and a host of industrial...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...I knew they had it."60Beverly Lindsay-Johnson, interview with author, January 8, 2013. This story and the black and white reenactments in Lindsay-Johnson's film speak both to the creativity that historians...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...on Moss Street bordering Bayou St. John, providing a microcosm of Faubourg St. John, a neighborhood recovering, but with gaps. Uptown The neighborhoods encompassed by the Uptown Planning District were...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...the Future of Urban Cultures (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005), and recently published "'What’s Good for Boyle Heights is Good for the Jews': Creating Multiracialism on the Eastside During the...
"Aint that Something?"
...and subjects. Some of Appalachian literature's most acclaimed and best-known authors include James Still, Harriette Simpson Arnow, Wendell Berry, Jim Wayne Miller, Denise Giardina, and Lee Smith. Younger Appalachian authors...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...US Diplomacy toward Saint Domingue, 1798–1801," Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9, no. 1 (Winter 2011): 114–41; and Ronald Angelo Johnson, Diplomacy in Black and White: John Adams, Toussaint...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...Bill Finch, Beth Maynor Young, Rhett Johnson, and John C. Hall. Copyright © 2012 by the University of North Carolina Press. Photographs © 2012 by Beth Maynor Young. Used by...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...with a publicly facing, state-of-the art COVID-19 data display epitomizes what the agency had neglected. Instead, other data visualization websites, most notably Johns Hopkins University's dashboard, served as the go-to...