Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...belief that all men are created equal."8Raymond Hernandez, "After challenges, House approves renewal of Voting Rights Act," New York Times, July 14, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/14/washington/14rights.html. "Bush signs Voting Rights Act extension," NBC...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...Cyclorama, where an enormous circular painting of the Battle of Atlanta is displayed. "Atlanta played a significant role in the Civil War," Pollock says. "The Battle of Atlanta was a...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...sits atop an anchor between two casks pouring forth streams of water. The casks are marked "Mississippi" and "ombech," respectively, signifying the Mississippi River and the Tombechbee River, an antiquated...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...the Department of Art and Design at Missouri State University. He has received a number of awards for his photographic work including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts,...
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An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...land, Chang and Eng—two brothers formerly sold into indentured servitude and treated no better than slaves—began farming by using black slaves. Here our story takes a significant turn, entering what...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...2015. Bottom, lighthouse on Sapelo Island, Georgia, 2015. Screenshots courtesy of Southern Spaces. Perhaps the most scientifically significant legacy of Sapelo is its birthing of modern ecology, much of which...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...excerpts document experiences and events that occurred during the 1950s and 1960s, decades of significant social and cultural change nationally. The economic, political, and social landscape of Atlanta transformed dramatically...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Album, 1–2. In 1825, with the signing of the infamous Treaty of Indian Springs between the United States and the Creek Nation, the way was opened for the forced final...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...in the southeast continue to be produced, though the genre begins to show signs of exhaustion as its authors find it more and more difficult to convincingly present captive, dispossessed...