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...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...the Sand Mountain Region Many of the audio selections in this piece are performed by the Wootten family, most of whom live in north Alabama. Many hail from the Sand...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...the same piece of cloth." As Helper wandered around the city square or walked down Telegraph Hill in San Francisco, where the Chinese thronged the "cow-pens" and "human stables," as...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...of 429 enslaved in Savannah to pay off enormous gambling debts, recoup stock market losses, and stay solvent.8Butler resided mainly in Philadelphia, but spent a few months out of some...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...money lost from the sale of the crops they labored to raise under sharecropping and share tenancy, money lost to landlords' inflated interest and lien credit, and the resulting lost...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...if we had a history of the public health system systematically and consistently providing preventative treatments and care, regardless of partisan politics, would it make a difference in vaccination rates...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...at the crossroads of the railroad and U.S. 11, just off the highway, a place where the growing number of mexicano workers can send envios of money home. I grew...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...its escape from secondary education. As all of those in our noble profession know, even the most starry-eyed believer in the power of education sometimes loses control of the classroom,...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...and Foodways from the Slave Narratives (Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood Press, 2009). Literary scholar David S. Shields discusses the appearance of roasted opossum on a hotel menu in "Possum in...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...a time of heady optimism. Many believed anything was possible, even progress. The movement had its most visible roots in New York and San Francisco, but after it flared in...