Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...this post down in front of Levy's department store. It had mirrors on four sides, and queers would stop and comb their hair there. Oh, you could spot them. If...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...Diseases, ed. William Josephus Robinson (New York: The Altrurians, 1909). For historical studies on this, see Theodor Rosebury, Microbes and Morals: The Strange Story of Venereal Disease (New York: Viking...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...Atlanta cyclorama painting is a striking visual spectacle. The huge, circular panorama—371 feet long and 49 feet high—displays in vivid, you-are-there style one of the biggest clashes fought in the...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...Vital Statistics Rates in the United States, 1900-1940 (Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1943), 704-823; Robert D. Grove and Alice M. Hetzel, Vital Statistics Rates in the United States,...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850] Paul Black Paul Black (1901-1975) was the youngest child of H. R. and Mary Black. Paul attended the Hastoc School for Boys, then enrolled...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...term for such all-out hostility was "massive resistance." Fred Stroud leads protest against desegregation, Nashville, TN, 1957. © Nashville Public Library. A special pre-registration of first graders was announced for August...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...it with his rival, Stiles, or because he knew well the struggles of the peasants who visited hookworm stations. Still, the "germ of laziness" helped to reconfigure the racial geography...
Encountering COVID
...walker and then I would get tired. Like right now, I still get tired fast, I still don't have no balance, still can't taste every now and then, still can't...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...state in 1970, now ranks as the ninth most populous.12"State of Metropolitan America," Brookings Institution, http://www.brookings.edu/about/programs/metro/stateofmetroamerica; US Department of Congress, Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census, "1990 Census...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...less explain, the excitement generated by the film. It became a combination eucharist and shibboleth, and Rolling Stone loved it. It is still widely praised and fondly remembered by many...