Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...Dorman and Charles Reagan Wilson (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998), 38; Jack Temple Kirby, Rural Worlds Lost: The American South, 1920–1960 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987). Perhaps that...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...Introduction to the Writings of Confederate History (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939, reprinted 1998), 59. Ellen Glasgow, c. 1890. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. Writer Ellen Glasgow,...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...achieve the hygienic practices that kept middle-class and wealthy Anglo and Mexican American homes clean and free of disease was lost on these public health officials. Exposing Anglo Americans' privileges...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...their twenties.6Dorothy E. Roberts, “The Social and Moral Cost of Mass Incarceration in African American Communities,” Stanford Law Review 56, no. 5 (2004): 1272. The lessons the museum has to...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...Snyder and Jack B. Moore, Pioneer Commercial Photography: The Burgert Brothers, Tampa, Florida (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1992), 12. During the next four decades the firm stayed prosperous by continuing...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...University's theater offerings and gave Atlanta's African American community access to serious drama with professional stage sets and costumes. Moreover, she opened the university community to the American theater world,...
The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War
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Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...carrying her clothes, my unborn sister, nothing left of marriage but the cheap ring. There was her father, Lonnie, the house painter, in Lantana. Lonnie, always drinking, laughing at poverty....
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
...Public Information for the University of South Florida. He was a staff writer for Southern Education Report, 1965–1969, and for Race Relations Reporter, 1969–1971. In 1971, Egerton began his career...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...poet whose work critiqued the Revolution and its leaders in his moment, 1967–68, leading to his arrest, torture, and subsequent exile to the United States in 1980. Padilla worked many...