"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...of Better Things," Sun (New York, NY), Jan. 16, 1909, 1, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1909-01-16/ed-1/seq-1/; "South to Gain," Washington (DC) Herald, Jan. 16, 1909, 1. In order to provide Taft "insight of what...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...Subgroup 2, Series 41, Box 1, Department of Agriculture, Georgia Archives; Hal Allen, "Air War Set in Macon Area on White-Fringed Beetle," Macon Telegraph, July 15, 1946, 1; "Battle against...
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...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...Cultural Production of Ignorance (and Its Study)," in Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance, ed. Robert N. Proctor and Londa Schiebinger (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008), 1–33. Further,...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...the all-white Society for the Preservation of Spirituals, whose members had been "reared under the plantation traditions" and whose public performances and interpretations of African American spirituals as late as...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...as the region’s unique “spiritual geography.”7Tom Rankin, Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993), 7. Rankin’s three photographs in the “Outlands” exhibit chronicle the...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...can we fill in the gaps, round out the file…?'"2Betty Rivard, ed. New Deal Photographs of West Virginia, 1934–1943 (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2012), 143. In a similar spirit,...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...challenge to the access and preservation of library books on the blog as a part of our contribution to spreading awareness (and celebrating!) this week. On October 10, Harold Baer,...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...history in the twentieth century1 See Bruce J. Schulman, From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938–1980 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1994); and,...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...catastrophe by any standard. Some 1,800 persons were killed outright. More than a million people were forced to relocate, many for the remainder of their lives. A city of 500,000...