Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
Appendix I: Background on the Family of Francis Tinney Charles Teney manumitted Francis's father William Don Otius Teney on November 15, 1827, along with William's siblings Ann and Andrew and their...
Iconoclasm and the Confederacy: The Challenge of White Supremacy in the Memorial Landscape
...Cory Booker, Newark, and Post-Racial America (New York: New York University Press, 2012). Daniel A. Pollock, a longtime resident of Atlanta, is author of the project "The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance."...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...Gazette-Mail (WV), April 12, 1994; "All About Business," Charleston Daily Mail (WV), April 26, 1994. Utility companies recognized the importance of obtaining quality coal as cheaply as possible. For example, American...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...the creation of gay space, which racialized subjects had access to gay space, and how that space was racialized or imbued with ideas about race as a consequence.1I follow Michael...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...singular identity and consider the intersections where black-gay-men struggle to exist in places such as Miami and Atlanta. Jenkins structures Moonlight in a tripartite way, beginning with "Little" and ending...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...city's users.11Between May 1923 and December 1929, the Times-Picayune published at least three hundred stories with references to marijuana, roughly one per week. The number of articles mentioning marijuana more...
Call for Proposals for the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...February 15. Contact Stewart Varner (stewart.varner@emory.edu) with any questions. This event is free and open to the public. We are also cultivating research around Atlanta through the Atlanta Studies Network....
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...deviled eggs from our hens and treats from my garden, now enriched with copious chicken manure. Games included a clucking competition and a Funky Chicken dance-off. Musicians brought their instruments...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...no reliable data on the number of children with special needs enrolled in private schools. A small number were established to serve special needs students, but the vast majority do...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...to slave relationships but gave little indication how that would be implemented. Other orders went into great detail laying out the calculus of who counted as a freedman's proper wife,...