Public Health in the US and Global South
...safety and the false claims of patent medicines became public causes in the early twentieth century. Successful campaigns of immunization eradicated infectious diseases such as smallpox, tuberculosis, measles, and mumps....
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...it can measure, define, or contain. I call such prejudice "vernacular" to distinguish it from another kind that is largely invisible because it is widespread ("universal") and hence perceived as...
Seneca Quarry
...Smithsonian." I've been researching and writing a broad history of Seneca quarry over the past year, a book called The Smithsonian Castle and The Seneca Quarry, which the History Press will...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...eschewing the language of "legal lynching." Even as the number of documented cases declined during the 1930s, the NAACP reported in 1940 that lynching had not disappeared but gone "underground,"...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...alongside the old Carondelet Canal, and to New Orleans's ubiquitous neutral grounds, as median strips are called in these parts. The Spanish had excavated the canal (also known as the...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...popularity came and went with an alarming ease following the election of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth President of the United States of America. In the heady days following Henry...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...at the polls in common cause to elect candidates? The answers: few to none. In Calera and in the South today, the simple fact remains that when given a choice,...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
...of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and co-editor of the Southern Literary Journal. She received both her MA and PhD in English from the University of Tennessee and is the...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...to a twenty-three million dollar campus in 2000, paid for by the state of Louisiana.1This is the number my wife (NOCCA '04) told me when I asked her on Gchat...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...number one on Billboard's Pop charts and included "Ramblin' Man" and "Jessica." Leavell recorded two more albums before the Allmans disbanded. Emerging from the break-up with his rock/jazz/blues fusion group...