Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...title.1The unique 1802 Compact between Georgia and the federal government settled Georgia’s claim to its western land beyond the Chattahoochee River in return for a pledge to extinguish Indian title...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...two interests converge between the individual defendant and the tribe. I think it promotes what I teach: tribes are made up of individuals. What I was taught from my family...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...racing along the highway crept into my left ear. Untitled (James River), from the series Stony the Road, 2023, Gelatin Silver Print by Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953). Virginia Museum...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...Center (EOC), Atlanta, Georgia, 2020. Photograph by and courtesy of Jim Gathany. Image is in the public domain. "Organizational learning," according to a leading researcher in the field and her...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...'Tater. Georgia Gourmets Now Reveling in the Chief Delight of the Year," https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1888-10-28/ed-1/seq-5/. Shipments by enterprising individuals such as Throckmorton fulfilled requests by southern congressmen. Georgia Democratic congressmen John Stewart...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...animosities between former Civil War adversaries continued, and paramilitary and mob violence against freedpeople and their descendants and allies went largely unchecked for decades.4Carole Emberton, Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence, and...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...of Blackness axiomatically raise questions of free and restricted movement; territorial boundedness and segregation; and fugitivity from the earliest plantations to the present-day prison-industrial complex. For McKittrick, the structural histories of...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...Charbonnier, Affluence and Freedom: An Environmental History of Political Ideas (Cambridge: Polity, 2021). It could indeed be pointed out that the rationalism defended by the philosophers of the Enlightenment, whose...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Early, and Decatur Counties in Georgia to end up in Houston County in Alabama and Seminole County in Georgia, both of which border the Florida state line.2Fred Fussell, A Chattahoochee...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...antiaircraft artillery training center and prisoner of war facilities.7A. M. De Quesada, A History of Georgia Forts: Georgia's Lonely Outposts (Charleston, SC: History Press, 2011), 107–109. Plyler later wrote that...