Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
Review Toby L. Parcel and Andrew J. Taylor's The End of Consensus is a thoroughly researched, multidimensional look at popular support for student assignment policies in the Wake County, North...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...promotional photographs. Their images depict the Ybor City Museum, a converted Cuban bakery on the grounds of Ybor City State Park. They speak to Ybor City's later role as a...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...not only in testing and treatment, but also in socioeconomic measures—including financial aid for food and housing. A woman at the VD clinic in Union Point, Green County, Georgia, 1941....
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
Review When Hernando de Soto's army of six hundred soldiers reached the middle Savannah River in 1540, arriving in what is today South Carolina and Georgia, they likely thought they...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...extract themselves from the heavy hand of BIA officials. By wisely investing federal funds, they launched the "Choctaw Miracle." Today, the Mississippi Choctaws are among the most successful of Indian...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...in the Heart of America, 1859-1863 (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003). Today, Richmond appears to be revising these views and heading toward a more realistic, and complete, history of...
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
A Mind to Stay Here Part 2: Egerton compares his observations in The Americanization of Dixie with social conditions today Part 3: Egerton traces recent politics in the New South, noting how...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
Review "I don't need a map to tell me where I am today." —Mike Cooley The Drive-By Truckers have always done their best and most arresting work about place. They...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...culturally, tracing the city's trajectory from problematic European colony to Congo Square to today while offering thoughtful considerations of themes in music-making in the city over time. Settling on the...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...and Georgia experience tornadoes that, according to Michael Robinson of the Army Corps of Engineers, "tend to be more deadly than those in the Great Plains and Midwest." Tornados in...