Remnants of Flannery
...President Eisenhower signed Executive Order 10450, which made it legal to hunt down and fire gay and lesbian government employees. The policy lasted until President Clinton officially rescinded it in...
The Bulletin—July 2, 2013
...Dallas County. During sentencing, prosecutors alleged that she had also stabbed to death two elderly women, and the jury sentenced her to die by lethal injection. Governor Rick Perry has...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
Review Children at Play, Mobile, Alabama, 1956. Photograph 37.002 by Gordon Parks. Courtesy of and copyright by The Gordon Parks Foundation. A grandfather holds his small grandson while his three...
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
Rebuilding the Land of Dreams Video Part 2: Spitzer discusses “The Basin Street Blues” and prominent representations of New Orleanians in the realms of work and play Part 3: Spitzer discusses how...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...notion that the history of the South stands separate from that of the rest of the nation, its values disconnected from American ideals.3See, for example, Matthew D. Lassiter and Joseph...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
...End of Southern Exceptionalism" conference held at Emory University in March of 2006, an event organized by Prof. Joseph Crespino of the Emory University History Department and Prof. Matt Lassiter...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...published and broadcasted segregationist sermons, cartoons, and editorials that resembled the sermons of their pastor, Reverend Douglas Hudgins. Such activities flourished, "because of evangelical religion's strength and not in spite...
The Place of Appalachia
...monoeconomy that produced occupational disability and death as routinely as commodities, this was a compelling formulation. More popular and lasting in influence was an internal colony approach, that is, the...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...Segregation's Last Stand and former dean of the University of Alabama's College of Communications and Dr. Kari Frederickson, professor of US history, provide context, while Odessa Woolfolk, a founder of...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
..."and where Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama converged last year in a political spectacle to commemorate the footsteps of the marchers."3Elisabeth Bumiller, "On McCain Tour, a Promise to...