Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
Introduction: Series Editor's Note Martin Padgett's A Night at the Sweet Gum Head explores a cast of historical actors who shaped modern LGBTQ+ politics and culture in 1970s Atlanta, Georgia....
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...with the world of gangsta rap and southern-coded truck driver culture. While group members acknowledge their appreciation for both the spirit and musical content/ of the new rap sound coming...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...ILA Local 3000, due to both the legally untenable nature of segregated memberships and the poor prospect of survival in the face of declining numbers. United Fruit Company banana conveyors,...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
..."private and confidential" letter enclosed with Bishop's appointment, Lumpkin denounced the "reprehensible" judicial challenges to state authority. He acknowledged that the language of the state's Cherokee legislation seemed "vague and...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...slavery period. In the present, the authors name names, noting the chemical industry giants that have transformed rich subterranean deposits into multi-billion dollar profit centers and noting the extent of...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...Wal-Mart has added its own twist to the system by buying from non-US subcontractors, Global-South-based private manufacturers who hire the workers and take responsibility for the day-to-day production of goods...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...by hand, using the coding view in Dreamweaver. I tried to code it all in xhtml. As we brought on additional students to help—Sarah Toton, Steve Bransford, Paul O'Grady, Jere...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...reconstruct Bishop and other cave guides as avatars of slave self-empowerment. While these historical figures found ways of confusing the behavioral codes of slavery in their everyday interactions with cave...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...genuine expression of piety and grace,” sung with an “atmosphere of reverence and worship.”38John Bealle, Public Worship, Private Faith: Sacred Harp and American Folksong. University of Georgia Press, 1997, 215....
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...for the dichotomies of public and private life about which Glymph, Edwards, and others have written so eloquently. Marriage did not function solely within the bounds of the private residence...