A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...and Clive Webb, Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848–1928 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). In particular, he examines Anglo attacks against Mexicans in the...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...Emory News. The section is expected to expand as the new website takes off. The website publishes original scholarship on a monthly basis; the first article is Boyd Lewis' "Living at...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
...of spatial perspectives into the study of nineteenth-century US health and economics history. Kennedy is the lead investigator of the New Orleans Mortality Project, and from 2012 to 2015 he...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
Review Sensory history is an exciting new approach to writing history. It offers a fresh take on past perceptions. Sensing between the lines of written sources, the sensory historian recasts...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...is evidenced in our present moment by such organizations as Creative Time, the Public Art Fund, and Flux Projects. Based in New York, Creative Time states that it strives "to...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...Map by John Scoles. Originally published in John Low's A New and Complete Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 64. Courtesy of the University of Georgia Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, hmap.libs.uga.edu/hmap/view?docId=hmap/hmap1810g4.xml. The age...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...enslaved became a defining characteristic of the slaveholding South" is not new (3). One of the strengths of The Slaveholding Crisis is its broad survey of the antebellum period through...
Remnants of Flannery
...largely set in-and-around New Orleans; Seth Grahame-Smith's 2010 novel Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter and the 2012 film of the same name, which reimagines slaves as food for vampires and the...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...Campos Torres," "South Carolina (Barnwell)," and "On Coming from A Broken Home." Scott-Heron's South was neither monolithic nor static, but a geography constantly responding to new political forces and new...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Anglophone Caribbean's plantation zone. The founding of a settlement that became Charleston, South Carolina, by a group of planters from Barbados in the 1670s functions as the analytical core of...