Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...(Source: "Shooting the Chutes," Atlanta Constitution (April 9, 1896), pg. 10. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, privately-owned amusement parks dotted the American landscape, and by 1920, between...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...how the rest of America could learn from the city’s creole cultural processes of tradition and improvisation as a way to better understand potential for viewing creative freedom in terms...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...following the jazz giant's death in Brooklyn earlier that year. High-culture mandarins weren't bashful about voicing displeasure with the name change, insisting there were better places to celebrate “jungle music”...
Residues of Border Control
...do not show encounters between Border Patrol officers and migrants, but they depict the rubber gloves and bullet casings. They do not follow immigrants into detention, but register the residue—detention...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...created that wealth, in the form of free health care, free schooling as far as you ever wanted to go, inexpensive good food, cheap housing, recreation of all sorts, books,...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...Anniston's history, demonstrating, as Spears intends, that "local spaces are sites at which global processes take place" (17). The connection between Anniston's civil rights activism and its environmental activism is...
Nearly exhausted sulphur vat from which railroad cars are loaded, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas, 1943
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: Dr. Crespino discusses and suggests the limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: Dr. Crespino traces the idea of Mississippi as...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...runaway slave from Georgia, hiding the fact that he was once a free man from most of the people he met in order to avoid even more brutal treatment. Northup's...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...Milledgeville from its establishment in 1842.8This review uses the words for the mentally ill that are prevalent in the literature at the time which did not differentiate between the developmentally...