Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...Panorama Company. The stops are set up in chronological order of the Battle's events, but the tour can be stopped or started at any point. It concludes at the Atlanta...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...latest technology: Princess phones played recorded messages and elaborate electric maps traced troop movements. A Mercury space capsule proudly perched nearby, an incongruous and yet resonant symbol of the unified...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...so long as one embarked from Germany no later than "December or January so that they arrive when there is no danger from yellow fever."62Ibid., 332. Observing that many Europeans...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...and by extension the history of the United States and India, over the last century and more. It should be obvious that many of the quandaries and challenges considered here...
Seneca Quarry
...Company. The new owners mismanaged the company, significantly undercapitalizing it by selling stock to senior Republican leaders at half-price (including Ulysses S. Grant), then took out several mortgages that they...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...2013, http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/08/12/4232398/gov-mccrory-signs-voter-id-bill.html. "There is no moral issue. It is wrong—deadly wrong—to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country," Lyndon Johnson said to members of...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection, LC-D4-16350. New Orleans has had an interesting experience with public spaces such as Armstrong Park. Many of these spaces are...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...4, 2009. In truth, many were dubious about the postracial long before any Rose Garden beer and reconciliation meeting—and with good reason. As Joseph cautions, we should be dubious of the "story...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...southerners to count their slaves in any manner for purposes of distributing political power among whites within state and local governments. And afterwards rarely did any southern state permit such...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
...poetry, and fiction, and has taught many courses related to her interests in race and gender, history and memory, location and cultural space, women's writing, American literature, and the US...