Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013); Sasha Davis, The Empires' Edge: Militarization, Resistance, and Transcending Hegemony in the Pacific (Athens: University of Georgia...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...Pollock, MD, is a medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, where he leads a unit responsible for national surveillance of healthcare-associated infections....
The Border South
...enslaved people (225,483) than Texas, Florida, and Arkansas, and the state contained more slaveholders than any other Southern state except Georgia and Virginia. The single largest slaveholding county in Kentucky,...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
Introduction: Unusual Sympathies In 1811 a prominent Choctaw woman named Molly McDonald placed her eleven-year-old son in the home of Silas Dinsmoor, an unpopular US government official who had just established...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
Review Edward Comentale's Sweet Air: Modernism, Regionalism, and American Popular Song is the latest work in a growing corpus of vernacular American music studies that seeks to understand the relationship...
The Bulletin—October 2, 2012
...is especially important because laws restricting rights of felons affect nearly a quarter of all African-Americans of voting age in Florida. Georgia Power (a unit of Southern Company, the second...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...of Ida. B. Wells, 1892–1900 (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1996); W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880–1940 (Urbana: University of Illinois, 1993). Kahrl points to a...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...C. Inscoe is the Albert B. Saye Professor of History and University Professor at the University of Georgia. He has written widely on slavery and race relations in Southern Appalachia....
Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies
Video Part 1b: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies Part 2: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies Part 3: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
Essay Nancy Marshall, Altamaha River, Georgia, 2010. From "James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha." Chiding conventional historians for their neglect of nature has a long tradition among environmental...