Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...to Chicago provides a last look at several black Chicago institutions. "Economic Downturn," Video excerpt from Goin' to Chicago, a documentary film by George King, originally broadcast on PBS in...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...between large numbers of people who would otherwise have little reason to cohere into a national "community" or continue to participate in one.107Raymond Haberski, "War and American Thought: Finding a...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...they please," and were encouraged to "bring your snap beans or other vegetables to prepare for the next day's meals." In 1977, original owner Sonny Stevenson sold the Moon-Glo to...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...polite and to "let our camps do the talking," no one said much of anything beyond what William Jones offered: "We have no place to go," he told the Post-Dispatch....
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...Yankee capture of Atlanta electrified the North, and, more than any other event on or off the battlefield, it turned around Lincoln's political fortunes.4James M. McPherson, "Two Strategies of Victory:...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...only recently come onto the radar of scholars of the South.8For work on Latino migration to the rural South, see Peter Benson, “El Campo: Faciality and Structural Violence in Farm...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...to collect oral histories across the United States. I am also indebted to an anonymous reviewer for bringing my attention to The New Orleans Dyke Bar History Project, accessed October...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...was only one component of a broader mosaic. The Lomaxes went on to record hundreds of hollers, hymns, spirituals, charivari, children's songs, blues, waltzes, two-steps, jurés, laments, and other genres...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
Introduction During the antebellum era, New Orleans became the second largest port of US immigration after New York City, leading hundreds of thousands of Germans to begin new lives at...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...downtown sidewalks. A new world seemed to be emerging out of our creativity, our music and art, and our politics, but also the way we understood ourselves and related to...