The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...and northeast Georgia. Atlanta in 1864 When the Union occupation of Atlanta began in early September 1864, fewer than three thousand civilian inhabitants lived in the city, a sharp drop...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
African American Suburbanization Part 2: Dr. Wiese traces how Black suburbs faced intensified segregation and isolation from the post-WWII period through the 1960s Part 3: Dr. Wiese discusses how Black neighborhoods grew...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...live below the poverty level, a number almost double the US average. When compared to other southern cities, the Memphis poverty rate of 23.5 percent is the same as Atlanta's...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...first cousins with the same surname occupied two sides of a duplex house. "The family on one side lived as black; that on the other side lived as white, and...
Quilting Conversation
Introduction by Katherine Jentleson During the summer of 2018, Atlanta's High Museum of Art hosted Outliers and American Vanguard Art, an exhibition that demonstrated how self-taught artists have been major...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...space of the hyphenating waters between Cuba and Florida," are some of the most original and engaging in Calypso Magnolia (332). In reading lives on the hyphen, Lowe opens the...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...infant corpses and live human organ trafficking (141–144). Díaz, who teaches at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, calls this the "black legend" of the border. These grotesqueries are part of...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...local residents, however, leveraged their insider position to serve as intermediaries between industry and those whose property and livelihoods were in its way. When Tennessee Gas began to lay the...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...mining, she gave exploited American workers hope of gaining some control over their lives and bettering their conditions. To dramatize the exploitation of child labor in America, she even organized...
Whiskey and Geography
...made people fight as if their lives depended on it. Indeed, they proved Hamilton’s assertion to Congress that a whiskey tax was a luxury tax had been simply wrong. Instead,...