Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...Cause ideology to the formation of southern literature (à la the "Southern Renaissance"), Hardwig reminds readers that much local color literature takes place far away from the plantation, in places...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
..."the South" becomes "unmoored from its local or provincial connotations" and "finds its rightful place within transnational discourses" (82). Like others before him, Lowe uses an aquatic metaphor, "crosscurrents," in...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...theorization becomes most apparent where Dubcovsky vacillates between the historiographically loaded term—the “South”—and la tierra adentro. Dubcovsky devotes only a paragraph to explicating the decision to use "early South" to...
Editors
...those who have taken the brunt of those laws, executive orders, and directives have worked to counter, undermine, reframe, and, when necessary, dismantle the legal and political edifice used to...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...more work at the hiring offices of shipping lines that used to be located at the foot of Canal Street, where Harrah's Casino now stands. At first blush, this suggests...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...case, is not his book's major concern. Although terrified of revolt, planters believed northerners would suppress any rebellion and refuse to allow the slaughter of white people. Proslavery ideologues, however,...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
Atlanta Studies website, 2015. Screenshot of Boyd Lewis's photo of Margaret Mitchell's apartment house. Courtesy of Emory News. The website includes Boyd Lewis's original article about living in Margaret...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...the shining example of Henry Grady's New South ideology — seeking industrialization through northern capital and promising racial justice through segregation. But in spite of the city's aggressive promotion of...
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, DC
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: Part 2: White describes the lengths both men went to in an attempt to gain subsidies and credit for their respective railroads Part 3: White shows...
Mississippi Delta
...an extensive flood control system. The New Deal introduced the most extensive federal government presence in the region since Reconstruction. Planters used New Deal appropriations to their advantage, accepting payments...