Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
Appendix I: Background on the Family of Francis Tinney Charles Teney manumitted Francis's father William Don Otius Teney on November 15, 1827, along with William's siblings Ann and Andrew and their...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...area and to the vast number of absentee landowners. Natural resource identification, mapping, and purchasing occurred as early as the eighteenth century, but these absentee holdings could not be fully...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...River Parade in April of 1941. Throughout the forties and fifties, the River Walk featured a small sampling of restaurants, shops, and boating activities that drew in a fair number...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...in Washington, DC, Mildred and Richard decide, in violation of state law, to move back to Virginia with their three young children. They find a farmhouse. It has no telephone...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...city's users.11Between May 1923 and December 1929, the Times-Picayune published at least three hundred stories with references to marijuana, roughly one per week. The number of articles mentioning marijuana more...
Call for Proposals for the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...February 15. Contact Stewart Varner (stewart.varner@emory.edu) with any questions. This event is free and open to the public. We are also cultivating research around Atlanta through the Atlanta Studies Network....
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...Atlanta's, but many other municipal codes are silent. A number of cities, towns, and counties are facing an unexpected ambiguity: if there is nothing on the books about chickens, is...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...no reliable data on the number of children with special needs enrolled in private schools. A small number were established to serve special needs students, but the vast majority do...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...of bureaucracy did not nest cleanly. While federal initiative may have prompted action, in Virginia, as in a number of other southern states, the cohabitation registrations came about through state...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...was a common situation throughout the antebellum South. Thomas Jefferson may be the most famous transgressor with Sally Hemings, but he had company. Historians place the number of mulattoes in...