Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: Dr. Crespino discusses and suggests the limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: Dr. Crespino traces the idea of Mississippi as...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...white oppression—as often they were—conveying the message that the power and keys to change rested with interventions of white citizens. "Fire Bomb Watch, Mileston, Mississippi, June 1, 1964." Community center...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
We can all remember when the Covid reality fully hit, that moment when we were forced to confront the stark news and the hard arrival of abrupt change. I remember...
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An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...the festivities consist of a potluck buffet, speeches, and updates on the clan news. One year, they even watched a show about their illustrious ancestors, the Burton Cohen play, The...
Marginalization, Mobility, and Sunday Strolls on the Farm
...much of the state without intercity transportation, mirroring challenges in providing adequate public transportation to rural communities across the US South and beyond. In an update to Dan Carter's recent...
Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...tour to a kind of twenty-first century historical marker—one that can hold an unlimited amount of text, accommodate images and video, and can be updated as new research comes to...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...to ourselves, confronting enduring challenges of race, power, and the quest for human liberation. This essay was updated on December 18, 2012 to incorporate corrections. Acknowledgments Research for this project...
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