The Cobb County Braves
...nearly forty percent poverty level in the neighborhood around Turner Field. Centennial Olympic Stadium, 1996. Photograph by Edwin P. Ewing, Jr. From the Center for Disease Control and Prevention Public...
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...global connections. From "Residues of Border Control," by Susan Harbage Page. "Spatial Justice" will examine social justice in the context of critical regional studies. The publication of this series will...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...in the towns and cities. However, deep discount mortgages, the hyping of homeownership for all, and banks' bundling of high-risk debt, proved a devastating financial sleight-of-hand. The resulting economic crisis...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...Southern problems," but he was also a "progressive, albeit sympathetic, interpreter of the Southern scene." As reviewers asserted, Daniels' background and moderately liberal (although racially segregationist) views made him the...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...boy scolded his sister all the way to their camp. And all through supper he looked at the dark opening of the door and then at Shirley who sat beside...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...to the late nineteenth century. The market for physical labor in New Orleans had always been biracial, and it was no different along the waterfront, where black and white cargo...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...way, and though he uses non-"ideal" sources such as "surveys, social networks, pornographic searches, and dating sites" to compile "evidence" on the "number of gay men" in this country, Stephens-Davidowitz...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...African American populations in roughly equal numbers. Reflecting this demography, Texas maintained a "dual Jim Crow system" (5) which enforced discrimination against both populations through a hodge-podge of laws and...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...Historical and Genealogical Magazine 50, no. 3 (1949): 115–26. For references to the carriage-making reputation of the town, see "Pendleton," The Historical Marker Database, accessed July 20, 2022, https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=9614. Local...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...sides, The panorama also paid monument-like homage to a heroic general on horseback, foreshadowing his postbellum political career.66Benjamin T. Arrington, The Last Lincoln Republican: The Presidential Election of 1880 (Lawrence:...