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...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...taken up hookworm and pellagra as challenges. Funding for health reform began to increase after World War I. New Deal spending doubled the number of county health departments, from 396 in...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...[precisely] to serve us). The second: "Hamare joothe tukde khane vale, hamare bailon-bhaison ke gobar mein se dane nikal kar khane valon, hamare mare hue jaan var khane vaalon, hamare saamne...
Seneca Quarry
...months (April, May, June, July), and at its peak in May employed seventy workers at the quarry. Out of those seventy workers, thirty-one signed for their pay with an "X,"...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...August 26, 2013), http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2013&BillID=h522. (Muslims make up less than one quarter of one percent of the state's population.) But it was money that really talked under the new regime. Republicans...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...upper crust, was courting Genevieve Williams when her two sisters—Nell and Augusta—were attacked on Shades Mountain, approximately nine miles south of downtown Birmingham. Augusta, along with her friend Jennie Wood,...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...Plan of Splendid Property and Two Fine Lots of Ground, Second District, March 12, 1860. Plan Book 005.018, New Orleans Notarial Archives. In the 1840s and ‘50s, New Orleans was...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...rights of people of color during the last ten years, and more than one hundred towns and counties across the South and nation have done so. In 2009, Chief Justice...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
...excerpt) Part 5: Contrasts Walker’s location in a black neighborhood in Jackson with Welty’s location in a white neighborhood 3.6 miles away Part 6: Gwin locates Anne Moody’s work within the...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...New Orleans neighborhoods are gentrified, only that gentrification tends to occur near areas that are considered "historic" and are near well-to-do-neighborhoods (which are generally white in NOLA). The second root...