The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
A few months ago, my husband and I moved from rural Arkansas to the great Atlanta sprawl and settled in Druid Hills, a neighborhood within walking distance of Emory University's...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...an oath to my people. It is very appropriate then that from this Cradle of the Confederacy, this very Heart of the Great Anglo-Saxon Southland. . . . I draw...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...and Jesse (Ethan Hawke) over the course of many years. Him and Her, Collage and Ink by Eric Solomon. Courtesy of Eric Solomon, 2014. Boyhood deals with space and time...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...like those gracing many of Charleston's historic homes, imply a Greek temple, symbolizing the culture celebrated by Euro-Americans for its democratic ideals. Ironically, these very columns recall how the forced...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...Press, 2005); Mary Kay Ricks, Escape on the Pearl: The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground Railroad (New York: Harper Collins, 2007). As part of the great compromise of...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...River. As a political figure and entrepreneur, Jackson seized the opportunities found in the great southern forests.5American Lumbermen: The Personal History and Public and Business Achievements of One Hundred Eminent...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...Urban History at Loyola University Chicago. His books and articles embrace multiple aspects of urban and American culture, particularly the history of various social groups in American cities since 1800....
Reckoning with Enslavement
...race, religion, law, science, and history and with myriad other prejudices, doctrines, sentiments, and myths. Georgetown College, Washington, D.C., ca. 1800. Engraving by Casimir Bohn. Courtesy of the Library of...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
Review In this impressive volume edited by Cécile Vidal a collection of historians seek to recover a "marginalized" past (16) within American history. Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...mark in bright red or orange which buildings had been searched and whether bodies were found."19Brinkley, Douglas, The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. New...