The Carolina Piedmont
...that connected mountains with coast. Faced with increasing white numbers and hostility, as well as the ravages of smallpox and the occupation of their familiar territory, natives desperately sought strategies...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...do serious damage. The tally I got when asked was around twenty-five trips down there in the eight years that I worked on the project. I was doing landscape photography....
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
A Sleight of History: Film and Essay Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium. A short film by Sarah Melton and Marshall Houston, 2009. My fellow filmmaker Marshall Houston...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...1850 and 1860 provide population statistics by nation of origin, providing the total number of German-born in each state. Compiled from the Original Returns of the Eighth U.S. Census 1860a-04,...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...as the Environmental Defense Fund, and how grassroots organizations have long been critical of the overwhelming white, middle-class staffing and policy orientation of well-funded national groups based in Washington, DC....
The Liminal Site
...purchased the steepest section, a strip about two hundred feet wide, less because of civic foresight than because real estate developers couldn't use it. Fortuitously, that strip is today poised...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...United States.6"Lifetime Risk of HIV Diagnosis," CDC, February 23, 2016, https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/2016/croi-press-release-risk.html; "CDC Fact Sheet: Today's HIV/AIDS Epidemic," August 2016, https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/docs/factsheets/todaysepidemic-508.pdf; Claire Galofaro, "Appalachia Bracing for HIV," U.S. News & World...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...76.1 50.0 % Change, 1990–2006 -9.5 -3.5 * Sources: US Census Bureau, "Demographic Profile Highlights," American FactFinder (Washington, DC, 2000), accessed January 16, 2011, http://factfinder.census.gov/legacy/aff_sunset.html. Data for United States; Columbia,...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...(Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1975), 25–6. In comparison with many other southern rabbis, however, Rothschild encountered little recrimination from a congregation generally in sympathy with his stance. Those who...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...as a result of desegregation, only 37% of black students attended mostly black schools, by the year 2000, that number had grown to 69%, quickly approaching the 1968 numbers for...