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
Blog post In a case decided on the grounds of religious freedom, the US Supreme Court took another big step on June 30 in supporting religious discrimination in publicly financed...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...budget. Federal promises in the 1890s to develop an elaborate Rural Free Delivery system failed to materialize. Dixie Highway details how Good Roads activism (fueled by a fragile coalition of...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...the various parts of the swamp, the more I loved it. And again, I'm from there. This is my native landscape, so I was very happy to be doing what...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...people into the US body politic, which they described as a free white national family. Rather than emphasizing the various forms of violence required to dispossess Native people of their ancestral...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...a shot in the belly, with her military father's pistol. A free soul like her preferred to escape in this way, rather than continue being subjected to the prevailing machismo....
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...ever since. The Joneses promotional poster. Bunny Lake Films LLC, 2016. The documentary project spun out of my first book, Men Like That: A Southern Queer History, which began as...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...had come to an abandoned wasteland. The desolation of this landscape must have presented a sore disappointment. The large indigenous populations, and their precious metals and labor, encountered by Spaniards...
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...going to die, but he managed to escape. He came to Pittsboro, North Carolina, where our farm was. We worked with him and taught him to drive. Hope gave him...