The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
Presentation About the Speaker Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell professor of American History, co-director of the Center for Visual History, and associate director of the Center for Native American Studies at...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...a cultural center in the 1960s kicked off a "racialized remapping" of the neighborhood (28). In the 1980s new residents straddling color and class lines were drawn to the neighborhood's...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...Division, LC-USZ62-71022. Smithsonian Institution Building can be seen at the top center east of the Potomac River and Virginia, Washington Canal visible, proceeding from the Potomac River due east and...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...sent to a federal prison in Georgia in the spring of 1958, Kasper was usually in Tennessee but only rarely in custody. As a freelance provocateur, his services were in...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...are not coal operators or conservative politicians but physicians. At the center of the black lung controversy has been a profound power struggle between miners and physicians over who will...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...as the largest urban center in the American South could not be sidestepped. "The Games pose the question about just which image is closer to the real South," Peter Applebome...
Roadside Architecture
...scenes and activities, churches, cotton gins, roadside stores, and many of the people I've encountered along the way—their likenesses as portraits, their worship services, their family reunions, some of the...
Deep Ellum Blues
...center city. African Americans were present in the Dallas area as slaves before the Civil War (97 out of a total population of 678 in 1860), but many more arrived...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...that Jheri had to be at the center of any documentary that spun out of Men Like That. We made attempts to get initial funding, including the AHRC (the Arts...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...Chicago, and California, it is somewhat understandable that the national imaginary continues to picture LGBTQ+ people as living mostly in the urban centers of the North and West. What is...