Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
Introduction Letcher County Judge, Carroll Smith, visits with local resident loading house coal. Letcher County, KY, 2005. Taking pictures in conjunction with Volunteers In Service To America (1968-1970), then continuing...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...to mention corporate, spirit of the modern American South." Soper's illustration highlights The World of Coca-Cola and Underground Atlanta, two attempts to revitalize Atlanta's downtown through tourism that were made...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...American Community Survey, 2003. In public education, the Memphis city schools report a high school graduation rate of 48.5 percent, one of the worst in the United States. Ranked fortieth...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...an equally parallel hostility to the welfare state. Goetz argues, this "radical remaking of public housing" marked by a turn to market-driven policies heralded "an important watershed moment in American...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...lacked basic services. Meanwhile, whites with means moved upward and outward from the city's industrial core. The higher ground surrounding Birmingham also provided space for white leisure, including the overlook...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...in the Journal of American History, Radical History Review, Diplomatic History, Journal of Urban History, Journal of American Ethnic History, Modern American History, GLQ, H-Net, American Studies, and several volumes....
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...inland ecosystems of Ossabaw, especially the maritime forests and salt marshes, were altered considerably by this agriculture. Following the American Civil War, a significant population of African Americans stayed on...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...Key: B = Ports where a marker has been placed and a ceremony has been held; M = Ports where a marker has been placed; C = Ports where a...
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
...of the national self into its ‘southern other’” Part 5: Greeson discusses the focus of national writers on the internal “Plantation South” About Jennifer Rae Greeson received her PhD in American...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...my documentation I sought to explore the significance of these roadside memorials to the meaning of the modern American South. In this photo essay, I have culled twenty photographs from...