"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
Introduction On January 15, 1909, US President-elect William Howard Taft attended a banquet at the Chamber of Commerce along with "the cream of Atlanta and the south's commercial factors, professional...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...projects: "All around Appalachia there are photographers engaged in a dialogue to change and expand perception of the region, allowing folks to declare 'hey, I'm Appalachian too.'"5Lou Murrey, "Out of...
The Chesapeake Bay
...human systems and the close interaction between environmental shifts and human societal, economic, and even political change. The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States and its...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...11, no. 9 (1911): 689. It is unknown whether the general prevalence of VD increased during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. What changed was likely not the percentage...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...of Fine Arts, Gift of Mrs. Alfred duPont, by exchange. Image © Dawoud Bey. Our local historian tour guide took us down the river path while detailing the experiences of...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...largest among metropolitan areas nationwide.27Steven G. Wilson, David A. Plane, Paul J. Mackun, Thomas R. Fischetti, and Justyna Goworowska. Patterns of Metropolitan and Micropolitan Population Change: 2000 to 2010 (2010...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...of each, she has prevented these conspirators from succeeding, keeping out much of what she and other loyal residents see as destructive change. But, to take it a step further,...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...obsessions, throughout his work. But more than that, it gave me the opportunity to see how he changed from book to book. Wrong. Courtesy of The University of Pittsburgh Press....
Reckoning with Enslavement
...to change what happened long ago, but we can change the way we understand what happened and what it means to us in the present.3A central aspect of the approach...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...“It is now, as it once was, a relatively healthy place.” Six centuries ago, well before the Columbian Exchange began, small bands of indigenous inhabitants enjoyed the bounty of the...