"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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...of the Original Big 7 Social Aid and Pleasure Club. The crowd has changed. It’s very diverse now at the parades in this town, you know. It’s white and blacks...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
...have attempted to implement substantial and often controversial changes to their election rules in the last few years. Some of these legislative actions have been blocked by federal courts under...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...license CC BY-NC-ND. Gunnels: But can theater change a country? The power of art or interrogation? González Melo: I don't believe either theater or any other artistic manifestation can change...