The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...look at that statue, resting in this beautiful place, I do feel, well, that we are given a glimpse of our just reward. That's what a college town was, after...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...that wanted to receive federal funds, but lacked other provisions that would have allowed it more fully to support efforts like the Dixie Highway. Ingram presents World War I as...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...of a national network of what anthropologist St. Clair Drake used to call the "vindicationist school" of black intellectuals. Responding to what I have called the reigning unwisdom of the...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...States. Writing that blacks and "acclimated" residents of the South need not fear "this scourge of Mankind," Grund voiced another reminder that yellow fever was a strangers' disease and that...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...Parcel and Taylor point out that "the heightened partisanship and polarization that was taking place in national, state, and county politics" coincided with the controversy over Wake's school policies: "Events...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...says guitarist Keith Richards. "Without that continuity, the Stones would not be the Stones." Leavell describes his role with the Stones as a "musical navigator" who keeps track of arrangements...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
..."a harbinger of mass culture" that helped bring about new codes of conduct as well as cross-racial relationships.3Kasson, 112. Kasson's history offers a relatively rosey view of amusement parks as...
Palomares Bajo
...Collections Library, Duke University, Durham, NC. This photo essay interrogates the devious discourses and reluctant rhetorics of what Time magazine belatedly called one of the world's twelve "worst nuclear disasters"—what...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...point of the lynching back then in '46. The police came by that night of the lynching and ordered all the colored people off the streets. That's just what they...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...hog and they'd take the livers and lights and all like that and make hash. They'd have a frolic and sell that hash to the people that came to dance.'"13Fussell,...