"A DASTARDLY CRIME: A Negro Assaults' [sic] a Lady Near Ponce de Leon Springs."
...to Ponce de Leon spring and was returning, picking berries along the way, with her little niece who had accompanied her. "It was about ten o'clock, and as they were...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...When those jobs disappeared, no other industry filled the gap and more people entered the low-wage service economy, surviving with little in the way of workplace benefits or economic security....
Love and Death in Mississippi
...happened at Mr. S's house. I grabbed my little brother's hand as my older sister grabbed mine and we headed out. When my mother got home that evening, I knew...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker S. Wright Kennedy is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Rice University. His primary area of interest is the integration...
Tracing the Arctic Regions: Mapping 19th Century Photographs of Greenland
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker George Philip LeBourdais is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. His research explores the...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...calls "magic geography," the Army Corps confiscated 59,000 acres of land and erased these five towns. It issued "requests to vacate" that granted residents as little as three weeks to...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...(1927) and Nixon v. Condon (1932), and the little-discussed case of Nixon v. McCann (1934), Nixon's third attempt to dismantle the all-white Democratic primary." In so doing, he, "along with...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
..."diversity ideology," whites extol the neighborhood's funky charm and eclectic mix of housing and population (race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and family type), and yet maintain mostly homogeneous friendships and make little effort to...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...colorful cast of characters, such as Gaspar Gulotta, the "Little Mayor of Bourbon Street" (146), who mediated between the various factions and personalities that held a stake in the Street's...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...Little Steele in the Cornfield, Mississippi, photograph by Kathleen Robbins © 2006. See more at the Jennifer Schwartz Gallery. The photographs of Kathleen Robbins featured in “Outlands” comprise a portion of a series...