Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...serves as senior editor of Southern Spaces. He adds the project was particularly rewarding for Pollock, who not only has been able to share his knowledge of the Battle of...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...dealt frankly with slavery and race. All across the country, the commissions and other organizations have been working to acknowledge the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, determined to do...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...female Aedes aegypti. The mystery of the disease's transmission confounded contemporary medical observers leading to theories ranging from domestic origination of miasmas to the direct importation of contagious persons and/or...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...city's HIV "epidemic" to that of African countries. "Downtown Atlanta is as bad as Zimbabwe or Harare or Durban," says Dr. Carlos del Rio, co-director of Emory University's Center for...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...of India], [take your choice]: go to Pakistan or to the grave"). There is no parallel foreign country to which people of African descent in the United States (or of...
Seneca Quarry
...the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, 1790–1992. The ARC Identifier is 3025595, MLR Number A1 18. In all of my research, the 1823 federal...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...to most of the old Confederacy, the state's leadership made North Carolina seem an oasis of moderation in a desert of reactionary politics.1V. O. Key, Southern Politics in State and...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...preparing to stage a legal lynching of [Peterson] as part of their campaign of terror against the entire Negro working class population of Birmingham" (84). Cover of "Lynching Negro Children...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...of trying to improve it. Other gardens, by setting aside two days a week for the patronage of free people of color and/or women, registered contemporary racial and gender proprieties....
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...or neighbourhood; unknown to the particular locality specified or implied. Of a place or locality: Other than one's own." Since the word comes from the Old French estrange and from the Latin extrāneus (external,...