Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...It is the troubled generations between the pre-Columbian past and the post-Pasteur present that occupy McCandless, who taught history at the College of Charleston from 1974 until his retirement in...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...Corps of Engineers continues to claim that "[t]he MR&T project represents one of mankind's most successful civil works projects and one of the wisest investments." 1U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,...
The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
...the House. Former Congressman Sanford, despite causing a great scandal in 2009 by covering up a romantic affair in Argentina with a story about hiking the Appalachian Trail, ran against...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...Chronicles is on display in Emory's Manuscript and Rare Books Library until May 16, 2014 as a part of the "Building a Movement in the Southeast: LGBT Collections in MARBL"...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...of other topics untouched and largely neglects the vast spaces of "Upper Louisiana" where colonial populations created thriving commercial and agricultural settlements in the Illinois Country and fostered complex—and often...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...Chippewa Square, Savannah, Georgia, May 22, 2014. Photograph by Flickr user BEV Norton. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Bottom, Detail of General Oglethorpe Statue, Savannah, Georgia, February 12, 2010. Photograph...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...a Union Oil rig spewed oil into California's Santa Barbara estuary. Six months later, in Cleveland, Ohio, the Cuyahoga River, which flowed past the city before dumping its contents into...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...clasped in petition [and] ask[ing] 'Am I not a man and your brother?'" This illustration accentuates the journal's anti-slavery intent: to expose the "dissatisfaction with the slow, evasive parliamentary handling...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...modest political and economic independence. Serving as a key organizing ground for the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, Mound Bayou attracted interest from prominent civil rights leaders like Medgar Evers....
Reckoning with Enslavement
Excerpt Georgetown, April 2017 It was early morning when I crossed the Francis Scott Key Bridge from Virginia into Georgetown. College spires loomed in the distance, gray in the dawn...