Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...Career of Marihuana: Politics and Ideology of Drug Control in America (Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 1983); Dale H. Gieringer, "The Forgotten Origins of Cannabis Prohibition in California," Contemporary Drug Problems...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Courtesy of Steve Bransford. Buck dancing was popularized in America by minstrel performers in the nineteenth century. The International Encyclopedia of Dance explains, "The old-style African-American buck dance consists essentially...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...Europe during the Thirty Years' War. It's like something the poet Charles Simic might imagine. I'm currently reading Pekka Hämäläinen's Lakota America, a history of the Sioux people that begins...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...attack on a consensus history.2Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America: An Interpretation of American Political Thought since the Revolution (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1955). In scores of...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...States of America," 1794, courtesy of Flickr user Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Adapted by Eric Solomon. Contributors "interrogate new approaches that have broadened the archive and conceptual scope...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...in America.1Joe A. Mobley, "In the Shadow of White Society: Princeville, a Black Town in North Carolina, 1865–1915," North Carolina Historical Review 63, no. 3 (1986): 340–84. Though Princeville may...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...America (UMWA) had arisen, succeeded in a special election for leadership of the union, then disintegrated; the black lung movement had seemingly disappeared; and a storm of reaction was sweeping...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...vol. 3, Record Group 60, Washington, DC; cited in Mark Laurence Goldstein, "Capital and Culture: William Wilson Corcoran and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America" (PhD diss., University of Maryland, 2015), 30–31....
St. Catherines Island Flyover
Video and Essay One of the barrier islands along the Georgia coast of the Atlantic Ocean, St. Catherines has an extraordinary ecological and settlement history. First inhabited more than four...
The Colonialist's Gaze
...appearance or dress. Anemia caused by hookworm decimated Puerto Rican rural workers. After the discoveries of Dr. Bailey Ashford, an effective clinical treatment became available in 1904.1For more on Ashford...