Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...at the intersection of sexual, racial, class, and gender injustice that take many different forms today. I began revising my dissertation, which was a history of LGBTQ Miami in the...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...the pain. After the war, Lee privately called the report untrue but did not refute the allegation publicly. Historians today accept the account as accurate in the larger details.4John W....
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...in London from illness cut short her attempts at diplomacy and the promotion of coexistence between the two polities.14 Ibid., esp. 85–158. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as British...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...which was displayed at the Jennifer Schwartz Gallery near Georgia Tech, also featured a handful of photographs from the Southwest and Midwest but the beautiful and, at times, somber photographs...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...and created a new taxonomy for American nature. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) today defines an ecoregion as "a large area of land or water that contains a geographically distinct...
Encountering COVID
...to have more value than it has today. I think in seven years, when I'm sixty-seven, I'm going to be a very popular lady at the ten-year anniversary. Q: As...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...when it condemned a Georgia mob that tortured and burned-at-the-stake Sam Hose, a field hand, in the spring of 1899. "The sickening story of recent lynching bees in Georgia has...
Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
Introduction Thomas Mullen is the author of four novels, including The Last Town On Earth (2006), which received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize and was recognized by USA Today as...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...of the Caribbean: Colonial Georgia and the Atlantic World (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013). But Hubs of Empire is a remarkably well-accomplished synthesis. To successfully undertake a project of...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
..."the greatest." His speech, however, gestured toward Atlanta's emerging place on the world stage. "For one hundred years, the Olympic Games have inspired great dreams," he rhapsodized. "Today, the dream...