The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
Essay A just-released report from the Southern Education Foundation—"The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation"—finds that more than 5.7 million children lived in extreme...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...of a number of "marked trails" of this era—would join existing local roads into a long-distance highway linking north and south. Not coincidentally, it would connect the metropolitan North with...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...leadership to the integration of existing white institutions which were reputedly better staffed and resourced. But some black community members, teachers and students remember that the interdependence and familial care...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...development projects that map new bastions of commerce onto existing urban footprints. Many mixed-use projects include residential neighborhoods replete with spaces targeting Atlanta's young creatives: performance venues for live music and art shows, community...
Sams Gap, North Carolina
...Tennessee onto existing US 23 in North Carolina, Sams Gap, NC, 1995. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Howard and Yvonda Jenkin’s nursery at Sams Gap that had to be moved...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...study literature, history, or other humanities—and use computers to do so—are folded into existing disciplines. Andrew J. Torget: I agree with Scott. I think that there will always be a...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...Civil War, and its aftermath. The North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements project's comprehensive coverage, rich metadata, and searchable transcripts make the database a highly useful contribution to these existing tools....
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...in the language of globalization. Despite all these obvious changes and the new levels of interaction existing in these regions, my department of American Studies and Ethnicity at USC has...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...plantations," to claim that those plantations contained an "already existing slave labor force" (136) misses the point. As an analytical category in the context of antebellum slavery, "newcomer" meant everything...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...families, reinforcing existing disparities rather than mitigating them.” In Florida, the lastest available numbers show that two out of every three new recipients in its universal voucher programs had incomes...