Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...an exploration of Louisiana's hybrid infrastructure and a map correlating industrial spills, explosions, and purposeful releases of pollutants with population centers. These texts and images represent sophisticated and nuanced contributions...
Red J. Store on Carroll Street, ca. 1910–1920
...Mills Digital Collection aims to show us a portion of this history. The collection, which is the result of a joint effort between the institute's Library and Information Center's Archives...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...Vol. 102, part 4 (Washington, DC: Governmental Printing Office, 1956), 4459–4460, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/sources_document2.html. Six years later, after making a name for himself as a local state court judge who refused to...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...and the American South, 1848-1865, and Apples and Ashes complement each other very well.) Evans resisted localism and provincialism in Macaria by refusing to ground the novel in a particular...
The Border South
...it turns out, stood right on the border on the Ohio River: Jefferson County with over 10,000 enslaved persons. The Border, however, was also home to the largest numbers of...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements, 1751–1840, http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/history/collection/RAS. Advertisement for a runaway slave, North Carolina Gazette, May 5, 1775. Courtesy of the North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements database. While the...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...with a token number of Black students to deflect federal scrutiny, and that increasingly professed nonracial reasons for their practices, often citing religion. Many headmasters of the “segregation academies” by...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...and Marxist Theory (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979), Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (London: Verso, 1985) with Ernesto Laclau, Dimensions of Radical Democracy (London: Verso, 1992), and For a Left Populism (London: Verso, 2018)....
Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895
...a number of beautiful suburban homes have been erected...." ("New Houses Erected" Atlanta Constitution (March 8, 1894), p. 8 ) Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895 Published: 15 January 2008...
Putting up Beans
...filled with great leaves of tobacco, green as beans. Though soon to be gold and brown cured. Now nowhere near Winston or Salems. Not even close to American Spirit. More...