Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...first noncommercial, religious resort for blacks under the auspices of the Gulfside-Chautauqua Association in Waveland, Mississippi. If ragtime, alcohol, gambling, and the occasional brawl enlivened outings elsewhere, the Gulfside Assembly...
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...are featured on both the Southern Spaces and MARBL blogs. Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, December 14, 2006. Photograph by Brett Weinstein. Released under a CC BY-SA 2.0 license....
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...Professor Joseph Henry, the Smithsonian secretary, observed in his desk diary on January 27: "Today, a large number of carpenters commenced the putting on the roof—a gang of colored men...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...and Robert A. W. Dunn. View larger version. In the Birmingham and Atlanta metropolitan regions, the number of singings has held steady even as their geography has shifted, revealing nuance...
Deep Ellum Blues
...Goldstein and his son Eddie. Another member of the family, Isaac "Rocky" Goldstein, later gained brief fame by selling David Hinckley the gun used to shoot Ronald Reagan. I know...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...it." It is June 23, 2016: just ten days after a gunman killed forty-nine people at Pulse, a gay club in Orlando, Florida. You sit in the Kashi Atlanta Urban...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...be in direct proportion to the amount of control gained over the hydrological system. It was the relief from flooding—a natural phenomenon of the floodplain—that made the development of agriculture,...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...gardens, for the much cheaper single main building which housed all types of patients together, poorly constructed and badly ventilated. And much like Dr. Galt at Eastern Asylum in Virginia,...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...17 (Top): Paint Lick, Garrard County, Kentucky, October 15, 2014. Photograph by Meg Wilson. http://lookingatappalachia.org/kentucky#/id/i9137354. Figure 18 (Bottom): Skate World, Vilas, Watauga County, North Carolina, March 19, 2015. Photograph by...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...in eastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia as they go about daily lives and leisure pursuits. He visits a local swimming pool, a baseball field, family gardens, a supermarket, and...