Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...new two-screen drive-in forty miles away in rural Dewy Rose, Georgia. To compete with suburban multiplexes, Woodall installed up-to-date FM sound. A corn maze draws families and local college students...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...Terms of Sale—One-third cash; remainder by bond, bearing interest from day of sale, payable in two equal annual instalments, to be secured by mortgage on the negroes, and approved personal...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...general insights into humanity. For instance, this Eliot epigram fits the current occupant of the White House and his cronies: "There is no escaping the fact that want of sympathy...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...Blassingame, ed., Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977), 467–68. For the best analysis of this instance, see Elizabeth Brown...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...Where, for instance, traditional histories examined conservationism and perhaps Progressive Era smokestack regulation, Spears discusses resistance to slavery, and pre-Civil War public health debates, in addition to the emergence of...
The Chesapeake Bay
...environmentalists, and observers, the declension model--from health and balance to sickness and instability--remains the dominant way of understanding and evaluating the ecosystem's history. Contemporary Issues Regulation of the resources in...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...For instance, the great risks taken by workers while crossing the border are covered very briefly and illustrated with an image of a family running. In this essay we are...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...a chance to move among the unspoken nightmare of our common history, and to be suspended somewhere, for an instant and an eternity, in that shadow zone that hovers between...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...continue to permeate the blogosphere. Since June 12, makeshift memorials have continued to grow at the Pulse site. On July 31, 2016, the Instagram of the One Pulse Foundation mistakenly...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...2, 3455, p. 975. In Birmingham, Alabama, for instance, facilities that served food could not accommodate Blacks and whites in the same room—unless, as the municipal legislators put it, "such...