North Carolina: A State of Shock
...of straight ticket votes are by Democrats), shorten the early voting calendar, (Democratic voters are thirty percent more likely to vote early than Republicans), ban same-day registration during early voting,...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...that although lit had failed to detonate. Four months later, on February 11, 1958, unidentified assailants planted thirty sticks of dynamite outside Temple Emanuel in the neighboring city of Gastonia....
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...processional geographies of connected places. The book's cover presents an image of such geographies: the early-1700s Chickasaw map of friends and enemies denoted by a series of separate but linked...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...even though they clearly pointed to high PCB levels among the poor and working-class families living near the plant. Monsanto Chemical Company, Anniston, Alabama, 1940. Postcard by EC Kropp Company....
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...is natural to any one thinking that it is pleasant to be one.... Once in talking and saying that in America the best material is used in the cheapest things...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...the magazine's weekly and monthly best sellers lists for August and September. Daniels' book sold particularly well in the South, and by early 1939, Frank Porter Graham, president of the...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...the gleaming marble headstones marking the final resting places of the Methodist leaders associated with the early years of nearby Emory College. She called our attention to the beautifully maintained...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...number of reported tornadoes in the state each year is twenty-five, with sixty-two the highest number reported in a single year, and five the fewest. The average number of tornado-related...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...that motivates preservationists. In the early twentieth century, for example, African American women and men hiked Niagara Falls and cycled in Yellowstone. George Washington Carver, as we know from historian...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...life. From Cuba's tangled relationship with the Mariel Boatlift in the aforementioned Nowhere in the World (En ningún lugar del mundo, 2018) to teenage prostitution during the early 2000s in...