The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...path; they were instead following in the well-traveled footsteps of their parents and grandparents" (199). As African Americans resisted, so too did some whites. This Is Not Dixie offers several...
Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
...two African American policemen who were among the first men to desegregate the Atlanta police force, Mullen's novel offers an original perspective on the city's history. Mullen, a resident of...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...transgressors as a "contrabandista community" (2), united in their unwillingness to pay extra for common merchandise to fill the coffers of US and Mexican treasuries. Los charros contrabandistas, Juego de...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...and expertise will deliver us into a lasting era of peace, security, and progress. Oak Ridge offers one of the clearest examples of how we have learned to see the...
Visualizing Spatial History: The Example of Rio de Janeiro
Presentation Part 2: Frank provides an overview of the Stanford Spatial History Project Part 3: Frank discusses creating visualizations that evoke patterns and varieties of spatial mobility, consciousness, and power...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...the figures with rates in Cuba. He offers a sympathetic portrait of the Cuban countryside and the possibilities for greater agricultural collaboration once the United States lifts its embargo. African...
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...it as "a kind of cultural and economic counterdiscourse to hip-hop" (10), which she describes as "a platform that aggrandizes and exploits black pathology and dysfunction and then offers it...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...first-rate exhibition on the war in Virginia offers visitors to the Virginia Historical Society a new dynamic look at the past, one that will be sure to leave them more...
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
...with Eddie Bo Part 5: Spitzer offers an interview with Allen Toussaint, speaking to the role of musical creativity following Hurricane Katrina Part 6: Spitzer discusses the meaning of Mardi Gras following...