A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...attesting to Cobb's exemplary behavior at Milledgeville. In 1910, prison administrators included a photograph of Cobb to provide evidence of her physical defects (particularly the large growth on her neck)...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...made, however, still stand in the Presbyterian churchyards of specific communities. Their dated stones memorialize particular people. Elsewhere the lives of these people and their neighbors are more fully recorded....
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...of the place attachment expressed by residents, the town's population increased after the rebuilding periods that followed numerous floods. Like Princeville, the town of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, also came about...
Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...and practices throughout the Atlantic world. This system not only circumscribed the meager legal rights of enslaved peoples, but also placed special emphasis upon policing the "intimacies" (123) of sex...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...It is the troubled generations between the pre-Columbian past and the post-Pasteur present that occupy McCandless, who taught history at the College of Charleston from 1974 until his retirement in...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...Mississippi drainage basin. Flooding, of course, has always posed a physical threat to human subsistence in the lower-lying parts of the immense watershed that drains some 40 percent of the...
The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
...instituted a voucher system that would give parents the choice to use money the state had allocated to pay for their child's public education to pay private school tuition. Tuesday,...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...The Jesse R. Peel Papers chronicle his activism among the Atlanta LGBT population through personal correspondence, date books, and audiovisual materials. The backbone of the collection is Peel's personal diary,...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...Map by John Scoles. Originally published in John Low's A New and Complete Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 64. Courtesy of the University of Georgia Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, hmap.libs.uga.edu/hmap/view?docId=hmap/hmap1810g4.xml. The age...
Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005
...part of the Green Power Switch program of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The windfarm consists of eighteen turbines and generates a total capacity of twenty-nine megawatts, which is enough to...