African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...church's most significant social endeavor. Since the Atlanta public school system did not begin operations until 1872 and had only three grammar schools for Blacks, early Black education in Atlanta...
Deep Ellum Blues
...the music of Bill Neely. "Blues in the Dallas school is about Dallas," emphasizes Paul Oliver. "In fact, no other blues school, with the exception, perhaps, of Chicago, gives us...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...nation. The South already has the nation's largest population of adults lacking a high school or college education. Map of Low-Income Students in Public Schools by State Public school systems...
Submission Guidelines
...and southern regions, offers critical scrutiny of any monolithic "South," interrogates historical developments and geographies over time, and maps expressive cultural forms associated with place. We welcome submissions from scholars,...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...do things that you couldn't in a traditional archive? Robert K. Nelson, Screenshot from Mining the Dispatch, Digital Scholarship Lab, University of Richmond, 2011. Robert K. Nelson: There are two...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...cosmos as well as how those cosmological schemes are realized in lived social space. Yet, in practice the picture is more complex. The objectification of these schemes in tangible concrete...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...social services before social agencies were founded and providing the facilities and financial support for schools. Schools in turn prepared ministers and teachers and reached out to promote the development...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...This book is the only scholarly print resource devoted exclusively to the Burgert Brothers. Unless otherwise noted, quotes in this section are taken from this source. Burgert Brothers, Photographer and...
Finding Media
...few favorite sites and search strategies for finding useable media: Public Domain and US Government works: The term "public domain" can be a little tricky—there are a number of caveats...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...photographers who evoke the emotional power that comes through the repetition of these graphic icons, conveying the scope, variety, and sheer numbers of locations affected and the part that the...