A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Library, Photographic Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976, digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/lane/id/4891. Equally intriguing is Haley's examination of a clemency petition involving Martha Gault, a white woman...
Genres of Southern Literature
Introduction Booklover's Map of the United States, 1949. Map by Amy Jones. Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA-3.0. "Southern literature" announces the conjunction...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...fat in diets that enslavers kept lean and scarce. Ex-slave Peter Randolph explained that in Virginia many slaves made traps with cut timber, often setting fifteen to twenty of them...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...durch die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika in den Jahren 1818 und 1819, vol. 1 (Berlin: H. Pb. Petri, 1820), 1. In his 1820, two-volume Tour of the United States of...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...resumed restricting social safety nets while offering few, if any, alternatives? Changing policy is one problem organizers face, burnout is another. Studies have suggested that we approach "burnout as a...
Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South
...Ellen Griffith Spears, and Kate Orff. "Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction." Southern Spaces, November 26, 2013. https://southernspaces.org/2013/petrochemical-america-petrochemical-addiction. Hill, Sarah. "Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838." Southern Spaces, August 23, 2012. https://southernspaces.org/2012/cherokee-removal-scenes-ellijay-georgia-1838....
The Carolina Piedmont
...significant numbers. Enslaved African Americans made up ten percent of the Carolina Piedmont's population in the 1760s. By 1800, only two or three counties had black populations of more than...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...more than a hundred feet away from the station's main entrance and taxi stands. The stationmaster who imposed this policy was "no respecter of persons," according to Baptist minister Benjamin...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...the possibility of being unable to meet the water needs of its residents. For Manganiello, policy director at the Georgia River Network and an environmental historian, the 2008 crisis raises...
Palomares Bajo
...Fusion Bomb over Andalucía: U.S. Information Policy and the 1966 Palomares Incident," Journal of Cold War Studies 8 (Winter 2006): 56. Christopher Morris, The Big Catch (Maidstone, Kent: Angley, 1966),...