A Conversation with Digital Historians
...and they go in opposite directions. One has only become clear to me in the last couple of years. Digital humanities allows us to think about and engage with large...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
...v. Holder held that section four of the VRA—which defined a formula to identify areas of the country (many of which were in southern states) that required changes to voting laws...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...the MGs) in the studio and on the road. These influences have rubbed off on the Truckers. On Go-Go Boots, they remake themselves into an alt-country, Alabama blue-eyed soul band....
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...Depression did more than spur the rise of the modern American regulatory state; it also saw the federal government take some ownership of the country's historical and cultural memory. After...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...the ongoing difficulties in addressing race in this country. "We shall," wrote teacher Leila Amos Pendleton, "as a rule speak of ourselves as "Negroes" and always begin the noun with...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...worried that his influence would deter vaccine uptake, especially because 55 percent of the country voted for him. Bolsanaro's sphere of influence remains significant. His lukewarm stance on Covid vaccines...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...racial equality with heritage entrepreneurship, Alabama tourism officials are acknowledging the state’s rich concentration of civil rights sites. The marking of physical space in Scottsboro makes memories tangible. Donations of...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
..."marked their ethnicity" every Sunday by wearing traditional clothing (29). Even education became a tool to reinforce their identity (33, 58). Other Indians in the South pursued similar strategies, but...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...of it—Cumberland, Jekyll, St. Simons, Sapelo, and St. Catherines—Ossabaw is a composite island, in which sediments from Pleistocene and Holocene shorelines are directly adjacent or superimposed. However, sediments of the...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...Interviews James Franco," The Los Angeles Review of Books, May 15, 2013, http://lareviewofbooks.org/interview/james-franco-on-his-adaptation-of-faulkners-as-i-lay-dying. And this town isn't just Tinseltown. Indeed, Franco has been cutting a swath across the country from...