Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...Radical Race Policy," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 110, no. 1 (1966): 1–9. The US Supreme Court did as much or more than the other two branches of the national...
A City Divided
...Atlanta, 1890–1930," PhD Dissertation, Emory University, 1974. George F. Cram, Layout of Atlanta's Ward System (Fourth Ward in blue), 1874. Discomfited by an influx of rental housing and change in...
Brushes with War
...Winslow Homer. Courtesy of the Portland Museum of Art, 1992.41. Near Andersonville, 1866. Oil on Canvas by Winslow Homer. Courtesy of the Newark Musem, 66.354. Prisoners from the Front, 1866....
The Border South
...we quickly discover that the South was not closed but permeable, not sealed airtight but punctured with openings. The region included Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, in the east and stretched...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...Dan T. Carter, When the War Was Over: The Failure of Self Reconstruction in the South, 1865-1867 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985) 24–31. Presidents Lincoln and Johnson both...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...Sept, 5, 1834 and died May 10, 1860. " Atop the base is carved a statue of a beautiful young woman dressed in a long robe, her flowing hair coursing...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...1, 1858 to July 31, 1874 (Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 1999), xix. The land in question is north of Q Street and east of Lyons (Mill) Road (now an extension of...
Darkly
...in the air where they held a gun on Willie Edwards and told him he could jump. How you'd ask me — Why? so simple it won't tell a thing...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
Essay Here’s for an expanding hope. —Oh-OK, “Brother,” 1982 Oh-OK, Furthermore What cover, DB Records, 1984. If you want to start an argument, just ask any 40- to 50-ish-year-old fan...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...we have broken: a human cosmos that may be dirtied beyond repair. Where to begin? Charles Wright's poem "In Praise of Thomas Hardy" takes us straight to the heart of...