Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...of any other part of Houston where gay life is concentrated, though, except for a cheap theater downtown where the rough trade operates in amazing quantity and frankness—but could hardly...
Nixon's presidential motorcade, Columbia, South Carolina, 1973
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
..."Florida's oldest restaurant and the world's largest Spanish restaurant."10See http://www.columbiarestaurant.com/The-Columbia-Experience/History. It is one of the few aspects of early Ybor City that still exists much as it did a century...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...Spring Term 1851, Roll #17, Spartanburg County Court of General Sessions, South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, SC. These were hardly radical diatribes. They didn't reference immediate abolition...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...to test cheap and easy methods of contraception, such as spermicidal jelly and foam powder, among women in remote areas in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee in the 1930s. In...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...New History of Florida (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996). Fortified on Matanzas Bay by the stalwart Castillo de San Marcos, St. Augustine withstood centuries of conflict between Spanish, British,...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...of slavery" (5). Planters utilized the ideology of US uniqueness to attack anyone who attempted to interfere with slavery by accusing abolitionists of being dupes of the scheming British. The...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...change and isolation in the Ozark Mountain Region of Missouri," The American Journal of Sociology 41 (1936), 435–446. Art Gallaher Jr., Fifteen Years Later (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961)....
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...know what WVU is like now, but at that time we had a large number of out of state students, partly because our tuition was so cheap, and the whole...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...in Twentieth Century America [New York: Columbia University Press, 1991]: 197). This was the case in the Little Five Points lesbian-feminist community; most of the young women who were part of...