Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...and followed it until they were on the little hill above the last stretch of road and started down its rocky slope to the sandy road below. Ahead, the house...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...decades ago. The recent history of the Atlanta Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)3Officially the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area, the "metro Atlanta" region includes the following twenty-eight counties: Barrow, Bartow,...
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
A Mind to Stay Here Part 2: Egerton compares his observations in The Americanization of Dixie with social conditions today Part 3: Egerton traces recent politics in the New South, noting how...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...when they sang it with their voices in their accents, performed it with their hands, and heard it with their ears? They did not use the term "southern music" in...
The Bulletin—April 24, 2013
...gallons of heavy crude oil from Canadian tar sands as a result of the spill. The aging pipeline runs from Illinois to Texas and its rupture forced the evacuation of...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...other institutional spaces. In this way, Strang's study joins others that widen the scope of early American knowledge-making, including Susan Scott Parrish's American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the...
Antietam
We all went in a yellow school bus, on a Tuesday. We sang the whole way up. We tried to picture the bodies stacked three deep on either side of...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
Introduction At high noon, Nashville time, on Monday, May 17, 1954, all nine justices of the United States Supreme Court in Washington joined in a declaration that legally-sanctioned racial segregation...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...ed. Elzbieta Gozdziak and Susan Martin (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002). Economic motivations have influenced domestic migration as well as attracted immigrants. Georgia has the third-fastest-growing foreign-born population rate in...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...collected volumes as "his generation's 'finest contribution to American patriotism.'" And then there were the guides to major cities: New York and San Francisco, Chicago and Atlanta, to name but...