Scarecrow
...cawed Unmoved, their plucking a parade. The wind blew the odor of death In my direction. I had a mind To cry; I shut my marble eyes Too afraid to...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...formal parlor, sometimes described by social historians as a "sacred" space, where weddings, funerals, and other public events were held. In addition, larger houses, such as the one built by...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Youngest Governor (Montgomery, AL: NewSouth Books, 2008), 260, 303–306; William Warren Rogers et al., Alabama: A History of a Deep South State (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994), 547–548. Alabama's...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...The Unexpected Impact of Welfare Reform on Older Women in Rural Communities," Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 35, no. 3 (2008): 153–171. Health clinics, legal aid services, and local...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...For example, medical and funeral providers have the legal right to deny care and service to LGBTQ individuals even as such a denial violates the Hippocratic Oath and similar ethical...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...from nearly every one. While the National Park Service had an official nondiscrimination policy, typical of New Deal federal agencies it worked hard to avoid interfering with "local customs." As...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...history of the sack demonstrates how, in the face of structural forces that systematically alienated property from enslaved and liberated people of color, a single material object was inherited, preserved,...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...builds on the work of scholars in environmental history, medical humanities, and ethics to analyze the cultural and economic factors in health policy and medical care. This history reveals heroes...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...Wilson Lumpkin, almost all the removal troops in the state were Georgians and under the direction of the state militia commander rather than a federal officer. In a nod to...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...as the planners of New Deal housing legislation determined that racial segregation best facilitated stable housing markets, the planners of Oak Ridge agreed that accommodating existing social norms, including white...