The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...relatively obscure in proportion to their significance" (ix). One could scarcely imagine a more fitting subject for this series. State parks, O'Brien convincingly shows, became important battlegrounds in the legal...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...journey of Welcome to Fairyland? How long did the book take you to write? Is the finished project what you thought it would be when you started? Couples holding signs...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...white males. Although they accounted for the vast majority of the clinic's caseload, white men have not received significant attention in VD historiography. Including their experiences adds new depth to...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...the leading architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (SOM) to design the town. SOM integrated cutting-edge elements of suburban design including curvilinear streets, cul-de-sacs, neighborhood units, and a greenbelt.8On...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...to expel the Cherokee people amid the national debate over removal policy, one of the most significant and contentious issues of Jackson's first term as President. As Principal Chief, Ross...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...over by a nearby drilling operation despite the ecological and cultural changes the growing industry signaled. In the earliest rounds of oil exploration in the 1920s and 1930s, many southern...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...treatment in recent scholarship on desegregation. In her history of desegregation in New Orleans, Liva Baker describes the white mothers, called the "cheerleaders," as carrying signs that read "If your...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...the man in the grocery store, and the RC sign that announces Whitesburg, Kentucky. Other photos in this series feature outdoor pursuits such as gardening and fishing. In the captions...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...how the circumspect Percy "became quite close," with scandal-plagued British writer Norman Douglas, "as evidenced by the one letter that survives between them—which, significantly, is not in Percy's papers but...
The Liminal Site
...had been experiencing—"on the ground," as it were—for some time. I have invested a significant part of my career arguing for certain shared features of the United States and global...