Our Backward Revolution
...number of lawsuits challenging these tax-exempt segregated schools, a policy eventually affirmed by the Supreme Court in Bob Jones v. United States (1983). Right-wing Republican activists like Paul Weyrich claimed...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...to national and transnational trade: "It has always been exceedingly difficult to ascertain the exact number of slaves in the Southern states; the usual estimate is about four and a...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...1850 and 1860 provide population statistics by nation of origin, providing the total number of German-born in each state. Compiled from the Original Returns of the Eighth U.S. Census 1860a-04,...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...of Southern History 84, no. 3 (August 2018): 579–614; Sharla Fett, Working Cures: Healing, Health and Power on Southern Slave Plantations (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002); Todd...
A City Divided
...10, 1910; Atlanta Independent, October 15, 1910; Atlanta Georgian, October 12, 1910. If Mitchell and McElreath were correct, streetcar development helped the black middle class as well as the white...
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...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
Review When Hernando de Soto's army of six hundred soldiers reached the middle Savannah River in 1540, arriving in what is today South Carolina and Georgia, they likely thought they...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...importance of the river as a transportation and commercial link had essentially faded away and had yielded to paved highways, railroads, and air freight.5Fussell, 5. Masses of country people whose...
Palomares Bajo
...36554 - 5. Large amounts of Air Force footage were destroyed in 1991 and 1993, as is demonstrated in Sánchez Picón, 15. On the exhibition, see Daniel Wools, "1966 Hydrogen-Bomb...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...to the number of reported hate crimes in the US. In my research I found that of the reported hate crimes committed towards the LGBTQ+ community, 57 percent of them...