Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...history, the smartphone-friendly tour provides GPS directions and mapping, historical information about each of its twelve stops, and multimedia content including video and historical images. It requires no download and...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...Commission, the largest in the nation, began its work in 2006 with a statement that would have been unimaginable in 1961: “It is important to know that it is not...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...Ways (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996), 10. Historians have long noted the significance of Duden's Missouri boosterism,57Robert Frizell, Independent Immigrants: A Settlement of Hanoverian Germans in Western Missouri (Columbia:...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...1935 to 747 in 1941. Nonetheless, the South continued to lead the nation in the number of stillbirths and maternity and infant death rates, as well as in the incidence...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...Imam Hussein Obama. . . . Imam Barack Hoover Obama is the correct nomenclature." However, says Limbaugh, the number of Americans who believe he is Muslim is increasing: "Imam Obama...
Seneca Quarry
...Identifier is 3025595, MLR Number A1 18. The most remarkable part of the 1823 payroll is the annotation by Frank and Martin (see image, lines 31 and 32). Whoever signed for...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...2013, http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/08/12/4232398/gov-mccrory-signs-voter-id-bill.html. "There is no moral issue. It is wrong—deadly wrong—to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country," Lyndon Johnson said to members of...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...Crow as irredeemably violent and repressive. The ILD fought legal lynchings in the courts; its supporters—numbering several thousand in Alabama alone by the early 1930s—argued that the real fight was...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...Conceived in bribery and swaddled in corruption, Audubon Park followed an even rockier passage into sylvan existence. There was its inception in a land-jobbing scheme by two northern speculators during...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...is read. Thus, while the passing narrative is common in African American literature, Alexander's innovation here is to emphasize its spatial dimensions. As the poet noted in a 2010 Southern Spaces interview,...