1108 Dynamite Hill
...in Atlanta, Jeff Drew's father, John (1908–1991), co-founded the Alexander Insurance Agency with the mission of providing affordable insurance to Black customers. While a Morehouse student, John Drew met Alfred...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...band music and ballad singing were white sounds, and musicians, whatever their race, moved between styles and genres depending on their skills and what their paying customers wanted to hear....
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...region. That done, settlers came here in droves to establish cotton plantations, textile mills, riverboat companies, and all the other retail, supply, and labor services that were needed for the...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
Review From colonial founders' initial resistance to slavery to antebellum whites' embrace of it, Watson W. Jennison's Cultivating Race charts the first hundred years of Georgia's Anglo, African, and Native American...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...presence of endemic yellow fever was sufficient to designate a place as tropical and, therefore, ungesund. Following his service as a Prussian artillery lieutenant in the Napoleonic Wars, Johan Valentin...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...squeeze, bind.'" See "sphinx (n.)," in Online Etymology Dictionary, ed. Douglas Harper, accessed June 30, 2014, http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sphinx. The contracting sphincter muscles of the esophagi, anus, or vagina derive from the...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...accessed March 8, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/opinion/sunday/we-need-somebody-spectacular-views-from-trump-country.html; John Saward, "Welcome to Trump County, USA," Vanity Fair, February 24, 2016, accessed March 8, 2017, http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/02/donald-trump-supporters-west-virginia; Larissa MacFarquhar, "In the Heart of Trump Country,"...
The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. On Thursday, the New Orleans Times-Picayune announced that it "will significantly increase its online news-gathering efforts 24 hours a day, seven days...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...issue, the right wing talk radio people get all the airtime they want, but spread misinformation. I believe that before you take any stance on immigration, get to know an...
August, 1959: Morning Service
Beside the open window on the cemetery side, I drowsed as Preacher Lusk gripped his Bible like a bat snagged from the pentecostal gloom. In that room where heat clabbered...