The Bulletin—March 20, 2013
..."cold cases." A recent New York Times article describes the cold-case initiative, which was launched in 2006, as an effort to provide closure to both victims' families and the general...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...American and Caribbean Studies Program for this invitation to speak to you here at Emory University. I hope that this visit starts a larger dialogue between our two campuses regarding...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...nineteenth century. The following examples attest to American and European utilization of that theory within the American South: Mark Carey, “Inventing Caribbean Climates: How Science, Medicine and Tourism Changed Tropical...
Making History
...hundred years later, I can make out Cuba Libre! and Remember the Maine! I don't remember the Maine, only that a Cuba Libre is made of rum, Coke, and lime....
History: The Parlor
Mid-nineteenth-century homes included a formal parlor, sometimes described by social historians as a "sacred" space, where weddings, funerals, and other public events were held. In addition, larger houses, such...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...we should pray I can't See the shore this is the river the slaves Had to cross oh God I can't see The shore do you think we should pray?...
Talk Radio, D.C.
...- I'm serious, now - catch your first morning urine in your hands and splash it on that rash. When they had the diptheria epidemic I was burning up with...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...MD; Berkeley, CA; Cincinnati, OH; Dayton, OH; Honolulu, HI; Long Beach, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Miami Beach, FL; New York City, NY; Oakland, CA; Philadelphia, PA; Portland, ME; Providence, RI;...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...of the lynching.12Laura Wexler, Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America (New York: Scribner, 2003). As the roughly sixty-car caravan wound its way, taillights blinking, it appeared...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...communities and their sacred texts that have survived. MARBL's collecting strength in black print culture also includes the papers of Carter G. Woodson and Kelly Miller, both notable African American...