Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...different walks of life consumed and disseminated knowledge from the burgeoning field of medical geography: the post-Enlightenment amalgamation of geography and the rediscovery of classical theories that insisted on the...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...public housing complex and later nominated to the National Register of Historic Places, Techwood Homes followed "a classic pattern of de facto demolition" (102). With the housing authority failing to...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...Power: The Rise of Classes and Nation States, 1760–1914 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993). Several other key texts, both old and new, engage directly with the problem of state...
Congregation
...from the car, take away the generator, the air conditioner, whatever there was to be had. He watched his phone for a signal, watched the sky for signs of a...
The Black Belt
...slaves were most profitable, and consequently they were taken there in the largest numbers. Later, and especially since the war, the term seems to be used wholly in a political...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...man-made and natural ponds, and forests."9The Flannery O'Connor-Andalusia Foundation, Inc. 2002. The J. Whitney Bunting School of Business, GC&SU, Milledgeville, GA. 28 July 2008. http://andalusiafarm.org/. Quiet and secluded, this countryside afforded...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...went into arms and by mid-March 2021, a quarter of the population had received at least one vaccine; six months later that number rose to 85 percent. Although Black Democrats...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...Baptist church surrounded by cotton fields, a culture rigidly stratified by race and class. Here history and memory cast shadows that recall a tragic past. Here generations of writers, folklorists,...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...slats. The post-war, white-flight model of red-lining and restrictive covenants has been transformed. Well-to-do people of color, the poor, and working classes are likewise drawn to urban peripheries. But subdivisions...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...latest technology: Princess phones played recorded messages and elaborate electric maps traced troop movements. A Mercury space capsule proudly perched nearby, an incongruous and yet resonant symbol of the unified...