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...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
Photograph of Rosa, Miguel and their son. Global Lives, Local Struggles (Documentary footage used in this essay was provided by William Brown, Director, Living Across Borders.) Part 2: Dr. Odem describes...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...towns. Gentrification is occurring, but the area remains relatively cheap, isolated, hard to get to, and modest, especially outside the historic districts and areas close to campus. And somehow, within...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...in April 1865.3James M. McPherson, Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief (New York: The Penguin Press, 2014), 205; Brian Holden Reid, The Scourge of War: The Life of...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...Class Consciousness in an Indian Community” in Moors, Guatmala Indians and the State, 205-229; John M. Watanabe, Maya Saints and Souls in a Changing World (Austin: Univesity of Texas Press,...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
Introduction On a Saturday evening in February 2003, more than four hundred indigenous people from the Guatemala highlands gathered in the assembly hall of the Cherokee County middle school in...
Mississippi Delta
...drawn half oval." Elevation goes from 205 above sea level below Memphis to eighty feet at Vicksburg, averaging 125 feet in height from Greenwood to Greenville. Flooding has been endemic,...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
Georgia, 1831. Map by Young & Delleker, Sc. Published by A. Finley. Courtesy of the Historic Maps collection, Georgia Archives, University System of Georgia. Georgia led the United States in the expulsion...
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...that the people who sold him the tickets were scammers. The boat was over-crowded and in a dangerously poor condition. The deck began filling with Mekong water. Everyone screamed in...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...carrying her clothes, my unborn sister, nothing left of marriage but the cheap ring. There was her father, Lonnie, the house painter, in Lantana. Lonnie, always drinking, laughing at poverty....