Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
John Vachon, Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas, 1943. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Color Photographs Collection, LC-USW36-839. Southern Spaces recently added six new images to the...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...the huge economic and political forces that buffeted all of us in my little Bibb County town. In January of this year, I came back home to stay for the...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...http://www.emory.edu/home/university/global-health.html; Dave Huddleston, "Atlanta's HIV 'epidemic' compared to third world African countries," WSB-TV, May 6, 2016, http://www.wsbtv.com/news/2-investigates/atlantas-hiv-epidemic-compared-to-third-world-african-countries/263337845. This Southern Spaces series examines public health in rural and industrializing places around...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...the speech of Hon. Henry R. Jackson of Savannah, Ga., (Atlanta: E. Holland, 1891). The last documented shipment of enslaved Africans brought to the United States was disembarked at Mobile,...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...experiences. The book concludes with an overview of the American Revolution's dissolution of the trade that led to revised concepts of American geography. With little or no deerskin trade, new...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...Tyger River area. Rosa was the oldest of the eleven children of Silas and Nancy. The quilt that Silas and Nancy Benson gave their daughter was a whole-cloth quilt of...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...Howell Homes, center, Techwood Homes, left, Georgia Institute of Technology, bottom. Atlanta, Georgia, circa 1940. Photocopy of photograph. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, HABS GA,61-ATLA,63--2. View of playground...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...convention in Atlanta, but I thought that I had better find and talk to Victor Montejo before I went to his country. At the Atlanta meetings, I didn't find him...
I-26, Corridor of Change
Introduction Highway Construction on I-26, Buckner Gap, North Carolina. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. "Good roads take people both ways," said a Madison County resident, anticipating the completion of I-26...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...glad the war ended. The soldier who took her away from the lint and heat leans on the mill gate waiting for her. It is October, he holds a cigarette...