Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...life in a motor vehicle crash or accident. One commemorates the loss of a beloved pet. Tom Zarilli, Wilting plush toys, Atlanta, Georgia, 2006. These memorials remind us of the...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
"Quilt given to Rosa Benson Snoddy by her mother & father when she married Col. Sam Snoddy. For Mary Kate Black." Whole-cloth chintz quilt, probably made by Nancy Miller...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
Review Understanding the creation of social spaces in an unfamiliar landscape is, according to Robert Paulett, a productive way to account for eighteenth-century developments in the American Southeast, particularly in...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
Review Building on a rich literature that explores the spatial dimensions of US race relations and capital formation, Andrew Kahrl's The Land Was Ours traces the histories of African American...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...advertisements. In one dated October 27, 1843, the local sheriff's office not far from Pendleton offered for sale Lenah and Jack with their children Beck, Peter, and three "younger ones"...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...War era nerve agents, drove some residents away. Calhoun and Bean, along with State Representative Barbara Boyd and Jacksonville State University (JSU) Environmental Policy Information Center Director (EPIC) Pete Conroy,...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...urging historic city dwellers to leave problematic natural environs for a rural location one hundred miles north in Morganza, Louisiana, but it was amateur social policy that ignored the deep...
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: Dr. Crespino discusses and suggests the limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: Dr. Crespino traces the idea of Mississippi as...
Black Population Atlanta and the Vicinity, 1940-1970
Maps for "White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta" Kevin Kruse, White Flight and the Making of Modern Conservatism Published: 28 November 2005 © 2006 Kevin...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...Detail Showing the Cotton Regions of the United States. Illustration by James Wells Champney, 1875. Originally published in Edward King and James Wells Champney's The Great South (Hartford, CT: American...