Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...publications include Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry (Cambridge University Press, 2011), co-winner, SHEAR Prize for best book on the history of the early American republic for 2011...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...advancing a fair, democratic society—affirmative action in higher education, LGBTQ rights, Native American sovereignty, the electoral college's essential integrity, and the voting rights of Black citizens. In some of these...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
.... . that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events . . . The Almighty...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...help plan, build, or manage such projects. As a vehicle for examining America's transportation and modernization politics at a key moment of the country's rail-to-auto transition, the Dixie Highway project...
Chattanooga, Tennessee images
Chattanooga, Tennessee: Inflatable Figures, Rock City, Lookout Mountain Located on top of Lookout Mountain, Rock City is only six miles from downtown Chattanooga. Woman on Cell Phone and Construction Site...
Frank Willis
...friend Jennifer said so, never went to the Jefferson Memorial, climbed the stone rhino at the Smithsonian, cursed tourists, took exquisite phone messages for my father, a race man, who...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...tide reveals complex dendritic drainage patterns in tidal creeks, with a road, telephone wires, and power lines as human influences on these environments. 1:53 – This is Cabretta Beach, with...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another farmer wanting me to lose half a night's sleep and drive some backcountry wash-out for miles, fix what...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...generally poor and African American residents. He posits a four-phase cycle, each phase representing a different influx of people into a particular neighborhood, each phase a wave carrying with it...
Iconoclasm and the Confederacy: The Challenge of White Supremacy in the Memorial Landscape
...Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997). Andra Gillespie is an associate professor of political science at Emory University. Gillespie, who studies racial and...