Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...yellow fever calls for its victims" in the Crescent City and that in the previous summer "one day after another, 100 [bodies] were lowered into the ground."31Ibid. He referenced the...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...it." It is June 23, 2016: just ten days after a gunman killed forty-nine people at Pulse, a gay club in Orlando, Florida. You sit in the Kashi Atlanta Urban...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...in 1883, the Fort Scott Daily Monitor prefaced its condemnation with a sermon on the meaning of the festival itself. "The products of the field were there arrayed in holiday...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...Atlanta. From Preface Today, American lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender people, and queers can get married. We can find short-term special friends or life partners on our smartphones. We can venture...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...to Dried Indian Creek. Lynchings, public executions of Black men scheduled as Black people were filing by going to church on Sunday." J.P. Godfrey, Jr., whose grandfather Israel Godfrey had...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...into a more appropriate and useful channel."2Simpson, "Note to the Public," v–vi. Despite his groundbreaking creativity, Simpson is little known today. Few scholars have written about his work, and he...
Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey
...Guards,” “Providence,” “Prodigal I,” and the documentary impulse Part 4: Trethewey discusses “Secular,” “Saturday Drive,” “Collection Day,” “Saturday Matinee,” and photographs as family artifacts Part 5: Trethewey discusses “Graveyard Blues,” “Myth,” “Incident,”...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
..."quiet, slow-moving environmental crisis" (13) of Louisiana's wetlands loss. Theriot traces a history from the discovery of oil in the Chenier Plains in the 1920s and 1930s, to the heyday...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...The Big Ten's modern heyday in football was in the 1950s and 1960s. The conference's strength, particularly from the mid-1950s on, was due in large part to the fact that...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...a Human Rights Commission study found that approximately 70 percent of foreclosures in Austin occurred on the Eastside and recommended a ninety-day moratorium on new projects.71In 2000 approximately 15 percent...