Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
Essay The tours that I lead at Arlington National Cemetery begin here. We are standing in Section 27, a location in the northeastern corner of the cemetery bordered by the...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
Review Building on a rich literature that explores the spatial dimensions of US race relations and capital formation, Andrew Kahrl's The Land Was Ours traces the histories of African American...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
Introduction This here tale begins in the summer of that year, whatever year it was . . . The year don't matter. The national situation don't even matter, because even...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
Public Health Crossings Top, Colonel Bailey K. Ashford, ca. 1893. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in public domain. Bottom, William H. Hunt, Governor of Puerto Rico, 1901–1904. Courtesy of...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...Branch Reports, Box 2, Record Group 442, National Archives at Atlanta. Even DDT-maker Monsanto expressed reservations about the chemical's "shadowy side"—meaning its detrimental effects on bees.52"Monsanto Makes DDT," Reprint from...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...ways of lifting up [the Dalits]." "Reservations . . . harm the nation." This 'sympathetic' reader believes in the necessity of the columnist playing the role of the leader, not...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...dated 13 February 1960. Permission granted by The Mary Flannery O'Connor Charitable Trust. All rights reserved. Available through Emory's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Qualifications and reservations aside, O'Connor...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...measure with few reservations. After all, a slight majority of the measure's spending was devoted to transit-oriented projects and it would have established some twenty-one new miles of light rail,...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...Seminole reservations and elsewhere in Florida. In 1836 when the tribe was forcibly removed from Alabama and Georgia to the present-day state of Oklahoma, the language moved into what was...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriotโs American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...to a nearby oil and gas field, the industry and state agencies expressed serious reservations. Jason P. Theriot's American Energy, Imperiled Coast chronicles the development of science and policy surrounding the...