"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...Museum and Cultural Center, a new museum that honors the nine defendants, housed in a former African American church. That the Center exists at all is due largely to the...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...concerned about the neighborhood. I also noticed a broken window on the side that faces Lakeside which looked like it could possibly have been made by a bullet. Is that...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...that’s the whole digital humanities thing—who cares!” What I think we need more of are projects that build insights based on digital techniques, and use that to answer a traditional...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...engines that drove much of what made the southern economy unique in the decades between revolution and secession. What concerns Pargas in Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...that she didn't know very much about what to order for gay men or lesbians. Barbara felt they knew exactly what they were doing: they were providing books for people...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...notes the role of US communists and allied labor radicals in promoting the argument, as the Southern Worker contended, that "the police, the courts, and the 'law enforcing' machinery are...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...no misunderstanding about what this case means in regard to religion: states are now free to finance private schools that discriminate against students on the basis of students’ religions. As...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...black people the very rights or recognition of kinship—Indians were described as free people who could potentially be incorporated into the US national family, a process that in turn mandated that...
The Carolina Piedmont
...that connected mountains with coast. Faced with increasing white numbers and hostility, as well as the ravages of smallpox and the occupation of their familiar territory, natives desperately sought strategies...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...I said with emphasis, "she's doing all right." "Well," she hesitated, "that's good. Please tell her I love her." That's the story that convinced Ash Kotak that Jheri and her...