Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...Maria Carter Syphax, ca. 1870. Bottom, Charles Syphax (1791–1869) and William B. Syphax, ca. 1865. Daguerreotypes by unknown creator. Courtesy of Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial, ARHO 6408...
The Border South
...stay in the Union. This policy was largely successful, especially in Kentucky, and Lincoln's understanding of his home region helped him prevent the secession of all the Border States. As...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...relatively obscure in proportion to their significance" (ix). One could scarcely imagine a more fitting subject for this series. State parks, O'Brien convincingly shows, became important battlegrounds in the legal...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...experienced an influx of Latino immigrants after 2000, as the overall Latino population of Durham grew rapidly. With a mix of single-family homes and apartment complexes built during different periods, the...
And the Prize Goes to...
...folklore, information sciences, public policy, music, food studies, and economics. The seminar voted Simone Delerme's 2014 Southern Spaces article, "'Puerto Ricans Live Free': Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape," as...
Good-Bye to All That?
...second incumbent was against gay marriage, the Affordable Care Act, tax increases, any form of zoning or community planning, and regulations on business ("Job killers"). He was for Second Amendment...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...Public Schools." Southern Education Foundation (2015). http://www.southerneducation.org/Our-Strategies/Research-and-Publications/New-Majority-Diverse-Majority-Report-Series/A-New-Majority-2015-Update-Low-Income-Students-Now. ———. "Update A New Majority: Low Income Students in the South and Nation." Southern Education Foundation (2013). http://www.southerneducation.org/News-and-Events/posts/April-2014/Juvenile-Justice-Education-Programs-in-the-United-aspx.aspx. ———. "A New Majority: Low...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...many more options. One caseworker described a client's difficulties that she said were characteristic of several others: This woman lives in an apartment complex, and behind her complex, she can...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...of its sins. Its new complex of Mississippi history museums, set to open in 2017, will prominently feature the Magnolia State's ferocious resistance to the civil rights movement. A peculiar...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...with the lowest percentage of white votes for Obama were southern. Alabama had the lowest at ten percent. Six of the seven states completely under the rules of Section 5...