A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...books on her cabin in North Georgia, including A Place Called Sweet Apple: Country Living and Southern Recipes (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967), reissued by Peachtree Publishers in 1985, and The Sweet Apple...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...enslaved labor contributed substantially to the city's economy and the Confederate war effort. Slaves in Atlanta carried out non-agricultural tasks, including iron forging, cabinet making, carpentry, brick masonry, blacksmithing, and—most...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...importunes you to the point of rage to buy cheap candy, Coca-Cola, and worthless, if not vulgar, books." Segregated waiting room at Union Station railroad depot, Jacksonville, Florida, 1921. Photograph...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
Mandeville Thum, Mouth of the Cave, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, 1876–1877. Introduction Geologically, Mammoth Cave is a network of underground caverns in central Kentucky believed to be the world's largest cave...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...citywide. The sacred second line parade, which revealed what bands or portions thereof had returned to the city, made use of a form that conjoins the Catholic and broadly Christian...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...lesbian and gay Mississippians. What I've called quiet accommodationism—what his narrators describe as a need for discretion, their refusal to fly the rainbow flag—is borne of the need to keep...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...of our time."10John Kirtley, "Facing a Harsh Truth When Fighting for a Bipartisan Cause," RedefinED, May 20, 2011, https://www.redefinedonline.org/2011/05/facing-a-harsh-truth-when-fighting-for-a-bipartisan-cause/; Katie Nielsen, "How School Choice Helps Advance Martin Luther King's Legacy,"...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...the idea of "dirtiness" imbues a form of southern authenticity. This dirtiness can exist across the South with local variants. In the case of the Alabama-based duo Dirty, a reviewer...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...the midst of the Nation. The Collapse of Law Vann Cherokee Cabin, Cave Spring, Georgia, October 2, 2016. Photo by unknown creator. Courtesy of Cave Spring Historical Society. While the...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...capital to enhance economic opportunities and improved life chances for all Memphians. North America's Distribution Center Today, the city's most recognizable symbol of the global economy is Federal Express, headquartered...