Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
Excerpt After the end of the Civil War, recently freed Black people endeavored to create their own communities. During Reconstruction, and with newfound access to political and economic power, Black...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...theater," Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive-in_theater; Douglas Gomery, Shared Pleasures: A History of Movie Presentation in the United States (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992), 91. William Robert Bruce Lonnee, "Preserving the American...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...Movement in American Memory (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006). Chroniclers of the black freedom struggle have long sought to dispel the collective memory that undergirds what local state officials...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...Nonne’s role in reprinting this piece. Over the next half-century Germans wrote extensively about the United States, particularly about the Louisiana Purchase and its suitability for settlement. Heinrich Schmidt, ca. 1850s....
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...gradual path to extinction in parts of the United States and on a more immediate one in Haiti. In the 1830s this international movement reached its apex as the British...
Palomares Bajo
Palomares Bajo: Photo Essay John Howard, Field (left), Home (center), Strata (right), Palomares, Spain, April 2011. Twenty years after the American annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, the United States...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...Chesnutt and Murfree as a black man and a white woman. (Chesnutt, a light skinned African American, was often assumed to be a white writer. Murfree published her early fiction...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...Southern United States," Annual Review of Sociology 38 (2012): 483–506. and as a place of opportunity, good jobs, and a quality of life attractive to many people whose parents or...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Shunning talking heads, Jafa recorded audio and visual components separately and then paired them together during post-production. Such an approach allows for "an extended freedom in both sound and image"...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...health response in the United States to COVID-19 was uneven across federal, state, and local entities, the narrative about disproportionate risk and mortality became apparent early and the public health...