Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...system of federal or state funding or planning for road building and when the affected states (especially in the South) had little to no bureaucratic, professional, or labor infrastructure to...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...the opportunity of further bridging that divide and of speaking on Bobo's behalf, but also helps to transform the butt of a high school locker-room joke into an entity both...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...of racial segregation so encompassing and effective that it overturned the limited gains of Reconstruction and guaranteed the subordination of Blacks in every area of life. Jim Crow, as the...
Deep Ellum Blues
...only chronological history of the revival of Deep Ellum that I know of is provided by The Dallas Observer: https://web.archive.org/web/20030718034108/http://thedoordallas.com/rdh/observer_july_1999.htm. ;I mention this because the club now seems to me to have...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...throes of a self-perpetuating cycle of financial hardship coupled with lack of education. For example, eighty-two percent of students with a parent who did not receive a high school diploma...
Submission Guidelines
...Essays Photo essays curate collections of original photography or other multimedia to perform the same kinds of critical work articles do: to analyze real and imagined places and spaces in...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...purpose, content-agnostic software packages like Zotero and Omeka. We’ve used Omeka once or twice on different things, and that’s a great piece of software. It’s very easy to use and...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...1940. Collection of J.P. Godfrey, Jr. Without access to the archives or to oral historical records, a casual visitor to the bucolic campus of "Oxford College of Emory University" (as...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...honor to be called 'Negroes'." From the use of "colored" and "Negro" to "African American," "Black," and "Bi-racial," the problem of naming and being named has reflected the struggles of...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...of Florida also maintains a collection of interviews conducted by Ybor City historian Gary Mormino that are part of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program in the Department of History....