"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...used against gay men. Lawson's teacher would observe this bullying, eventually reporting it to his parents. Late one night, Lawson remembers his father pulling him aside, asking him about what...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...hardwood forests, high upper pastures, and farmland. The highway cut through National Forest land as well as prime black bear habitat, and crossed the Appalachian Trail. Most Madison County residents...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...numbers and letters in each quadrant of the X, recorded coded information. Later, as I recalled my odyssey through drowned areas of the city, I kept returning to that visual...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...on reading the landscape, see Richard Muir, Approaches to Landscape (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1999) and The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes. See William G. Thomas III, "The Countryside Transformed."...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...the tunebook as he was a member of a “wealthy family on a large plantation” while White was “still establishing himself as a farmer and landowner” (6). Steel examines multiple...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...was nearly emptied of life. If measured by the number of lives it claimed, Katrina does not qualify as the worst disaster in our history. But it was far and away...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...took a similar position. Such declarations were, as already stated, somewhat disingenuous. The defiance of federal law by politicians including Talmadge and Preston created the context for lawless extremism in...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...Avalon Project of Yale Law School, accessed August 22, 2013, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp. South Carolina proclaimed its secession and less than four months later fired on Fort Sumter. The Civil War, the...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...in the US—to be white people descended from Scot-Irish, emigrants, fleeing poverty in Europe, moving from the eastern seaports of the US further south and east, looking for cheap land —...