Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...that the people who sold him the tickets were scammers. The boat was over-crowded and in a dangerously poor condition. The deck began filling with Mekong water. Everyone screamed in...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Georgia's prisons, Georgia, November 3, 1940. Copyright Atlanta-Journal Constitution. Courtesy of Georgia State University Library, Photographic Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archives, digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ajc/id/611/rec/53. Turning to the brutality...
Atlanta’s Tumultuous Fifties Fifty Years Later
...examines how voter registration and Atlanta politics play into race relations and urban layout Part 4: Dr. McGrath discusses school desegregation, highlighting Georgia's Pupil Placement Laws and Atlanta civic organizations...
The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks
...who largely avoided Jimmy's room and failed to convince his mother (over the phone) to come to visit her dying son, Ruth returned to Jimmy's room. And it was as...
The Shenandoah Valley
The Shenandoah Valley Edward Beyer, Digital Restoration of "Harper's Ferry from Jefferson Rock" from Album of Virginia: Illustrations of the Old Dominion, 1858. The Shenandoah Valley's history marks it as...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...income, but then switched to the less cinematically interesting (and for some critics, less symmetrically ironic) work of a telephone lineman because it paid better and was less dangerous. As...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2014). Jefferson wanted nothing to do with Haiti. President John Adams and Timothy Pickering, his secretary of state, on...
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...are featured on both the Southern Spaces and MARBL blogs. Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, December 14, 2006. Photograph by Brett Weinstein. Released under a CC BY-SA 2.0 license....
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...turns out, the transfer of McDonald's son to Dinsmoor's care was not unique. In the decades following the US Revolution, a number of American Indian women and men and elite US whites...
The Bulletin—June 12, 2012
...faculty, and librarians at a THATCamp AHA session in January. On May 24, the University of Missouri announced that it would begin phasing out its press, the University of Missouri Press,...