Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...was Raymond Andrews? I wanted to know because I was a lover of literature from and about Georgia, but also because I am from Madison, Georgia, and I knew of...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...who, like the Mims, were directly affected by the town's chemical dramas, serves as a powerful "argument for reforming how we manufacture, use, and regulate toxic chemicals in the United...
Transcript: "Lucy Mae Blues" by Cecil Barfield
...do Bye bye little woman now, if you call that gone Better leave your things, baby, thinking all day long Better not let my good gal catch you here Ain’t...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...hombres que estan padesiendo" (192). ["They are called the Martyrs because many men have perished [there], and also because there are bare rocks projecting from beneath the sea that appear...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...connections between mob violence and "legal" lynching run deeper than this slim volume conveys. While the antipathy between the NAACP and ILD infused both the Scottsboro and Peterson campaigns, the...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...stand in 1963, but were surprised at the building's level of decay: the administration warned us that structural instability might cause the roof to collapse while filming. We decided to...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...a strong "state interest." In effect, he is almost inviting the use of "fraud" on the same unproven terms as lawyers and government officials have used them in attempting to...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...More recently, the work of public health includes: chronic diseases of the heart, lungs, and kidneys; diabetes, tobacco and alcohol use; air and water quality; nutrition and obesity; gun violence; prescription drug misuse; teen pregnancy; and motor vehicle injury and...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...connotes originality, belonging, and rootedness. In drawing together diaspora and indigeneity to compass the complexities and ambiguities of indigenous peoples' lives, scholars of indigenous diasporas have closed the gap between...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...building. Photograph by Flickr user Larry Miller. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 2.0. Scholars of Texas history will find Rough Country's data and empirical content useful in situating the religious...