Cajun South Louisiana
...Map Collection, University of Texas. While many people associate the southwest Louisiana home of the Cajuns with swamplands, its environment also consists of marshes, prairies, and wooded river areas. The...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...I specifically reference the Pulse tragedy in my work with the number 49. A lot of my work features the multiplicity of that number. The blood slide pieces in What...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...an all-white restaurant, or to momentarily avoid a racial indignity. Some white leaders openly acknowledged what a large number of various skin complexions meant in the real life of...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...Texas required the heavy hand of intervention and annexation. From its beginnings, the movement for Texas independence depended upon and was lead by southerners who expanded slavery and the cotton...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...venue to the "Race Course," and reduced the number of persons for sale: Joseph Bryan’s Advertisements for the “Sale of Slaves”, The Savannah Daily Morning News, February 27, 1859. Mortimer...
Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895
...track line from the corner of Broad and Marietta streets along Broad street to Houston, thence to Hillard and to Highland avenue and to Edgewood. This line was subsequently extended...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...at a park in Jupiter filming a soccer game, and she came up and said, "Carlos!" I said, "Oh my God." It was just this little girl who used to...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...on its edges. Later, this north-south transportation corridor intricately linked ports of trade, towns and small cities, plantation houses, ferries, small barges, and steamboats. After oil was discovered in Texas...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...Small Collections, Jacob Rader Center of the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio. Ellen Rafshoon, Locations of bombings and attempted bombings of Jewish buildings and institutions, 1957–1958, from "'The Bomb that...
The Bulletin—August 21, 2012
...cases have been reported from Texas (as illustrated in this map). The severity of the outbreak in and around Dallas, Texas has prompted the city to declare a state of...