A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...stand in 1963, but were surprised at the building's level of decay: the administration warned us that structural instability might cause the roof to collapse while filming. We decided to...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...hombres que estan padesiendo" (192). ["They are called the Martyrs because many men have perished [there], and also because there are bare rocks projecting from beneath the sea that appear...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...Chippewa Square, Savannah, Georgia, May 22, 2014. Photograph by Flickr user BEV Norton. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Bottom, Detail of General Oglethorpe Statue, Savannah, Georgia, February 12, 2010. Photograph...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...and attained its current form during the final cycle of the latest glaciation. The eastern edge of the Delta contributes to the section's eastern boundary with the Section 2215, "Oak-Hickory...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...night for iftar and night prayers. I focused on the Atlanta Masjid because it is the largest African American mosque, and Masjid Rahmah because it is representative of the suburban...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...of the twentieth century, singings spread to the Northeast, Midwest, and West Coast. Later, through these same channels, The Sacred Harp expanded to Canada, Europe, Australia, and East Asia.3Jesse P....
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...electing the nation's president and the House of Representatives. During much of the first half of the nineteenth century, most southern states followed the leadership of South Carolina's John C....
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...House that we admire today exists because of laborers who had little choice other than to build it. None of this was extraordinary. The Civil War changed the equation and...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...Alabama has provided the setting for a number of influential studies on race, labor, and radicalism in the Jim Crow South. Yet in shifting attention from Scottsboro's sleepy courthouse square...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...the Southeast, edited by Thomas J. Pluckhahn and Robbie Ethridge (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006) to describe the seventeenth century demographic and cultural crisis that occurred in the Eastern...