Encountering COVID
...was no help. And the state system was not equipped to handle the massive number of unemployment insurance claims. Before COVID, we usually had about 800 or so claims a...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...During the Depression few people were willing to spring for the price of tickets, and drive-ins slowly appeared on the outskirts of other urban areas, such as Galveston, Texas, Los...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
Review Kelly Yandell, Foodways Texas oyster tasting at Gaido's Restaurant, Galveston, Texas, 2011. On a late February Saturday night in Galveston, Texas, I stood shoulder to shoulder with a hundred...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...of Texas, Captain Phillip Dimmitt's Goliad Insurrection, James Long's Second Republic of Texas, Mexico, the First Republic of Texas, France, and Spain. Mexico might seem an unlikely destination for defeated Confederates,...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...Solomon, 2018. Courtesy of the Don Kelly Collection, Cushing Memorial Library & Archives, Texas A&M University. From the masked jester of the Mattachine Society to a cover of the Daughters...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...He pointed them toward me because my dissertation was on the Texas borderlands. I approached them with an idea for a project that became the Texas Slavery Project because I...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
Review Christopher J. Manganiello opens Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region with a discussion of the drought that hit the...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...number slightly above the percentage of the Asian school-age population. Only white students and students with Asian ancestries were in private schools in numbers that exceeded or generally matched their...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...Guatemala. And while men still make up the majority of Maya migrants, a growing number of women and children have joined husbands, fathers, and brothers in Georgia, resulting in a...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...University of Texas at Austin, examines several episodes of epidemic disease occurring among the towns lining the Texas-Mexican border across nearly a century. He argues that these medical emergencies expose...