Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
Introduction: Shooting the Chutes at Early American Amusement Parks Lakewood Park's Shoot-the-Chutes, Atlanta, Georgia, ca. 1895. "The Shoot-the-Chutes ride at Lakewood Park was originally at the Atlanta International Cotton States...
Good-Bye to All That?
...young men (mostly black and brown) at a staggering rate; growing numbers of Americans remain food insecure in the richest nation on earth; despite the gains of the last year,...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...old racial order. The city's African American population contended with the framework of this struggle. In 1870, Blacks accounted for nearly half of Atlanta's population. As free persons they competed...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...Brothers, Residence at 2719 Jefferson Street, single-story wood frame, shotgun interior full front porch with gable and trellis, Tampa, Florida. Catalog No.: PA 5780. American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html American Memory is...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
Review It is a central contradiction of contemporary life that Americans have learned to coexist with mechanisms of human extinction.1The United States currently maintains an arsenal of 4,760 nuclear weapons,...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...cover and content page from The Fifth London Festival of American Music program featuring The Crossing, libretto by Joan Anim-Addo. The art that chooses us, I suggest, carries its own...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953). Rennie Collection, Vancouver. Image © Dawoud Bey. Right, Open Window, from the series In This Here Place, 2019, Gelatin Silver Print by Dawoud Bey (American,...
Palomares Bajo
...an exercise in outrage at military duplicity. It is, as Eric Sandeen describes Misrach's work, an attempt "to situate American vision, to anchor American memory, in the ruins of modernity."...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...Native American subsistence systems in the Delta changed over time to include various horticultural practices. The amount of horticulture and trade practiced by the Native American societies did not show...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...as a result of desegregation, only 37% of black students attended mostly black schools, by the year 2000, that number had grown to 69%, quickly approaching the 1968 numbers for...