North Carolina: A State of Shock
...The second is the belief that money corrupts the poor but elevates the moral character of the rich. By making the lives of the poor, the working class, and the...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...and northeast Georgia. Atlanta in 1864 When the Union occupation of Atlanta began in early September 1864, fewer than three thousand civilian inhabitants lived in the city, a sharp drop...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...and back, the sheer lack of space in which people could live in New Orleans in the eighteenth century. Though topography dictated many of the choices New Orleanians made about...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...(New York: Johnson and Ward, 1863). These workers lived precarious lives—black workers more precarious than white, female more than male, old more than young. Workers' families spun "webs of dependency"...
Birdhouses
...along backroads. Birds live, or have lived, in some of the houses, but not all. Some have sat vacant since they were installed, their builders leaving them as decoration, or...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...down sun-latticed paths shaded by live oaks and crape myrtle, maybe visit the Negro quarters, and then drink alone at night. Late in life he sank a small fortune into...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...cover up intentions, fail to capture multiple agendas, or conceal dynamics of power. A key argument in New Deal Ruins is that the narrative of improving the lives of residents...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...understanding of politics and activism and infused their movements.1Berenice Fisher and Joan C. Tronto, "Toward a Feminist Theory of Caring" in Circles of Care: Work and Identity in Women's Lives,...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...At this point, we haven't applied that perspective, but eventually the Digital Yoknapatawpha Project will have to engage Faulkner's role in southern studies. As the project goes live, there will...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...lack, then we will have lost the powerful stories of lives lived against the grain of official history, against the will of white oppressors. About the Author John Howard teaches...