Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...1950s," American Quarterly 56, no. 3 (September 2004). He is Past President of the American Studies Association (2001-2002), and is one of the co-editors of the book series, American Crossroads:...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...and the Round Table on Westheimer. Business owners and newspaper editors whose livelihoods depended on steady commerce likely also understood that the safety of their customers ("the good people of...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...states’ rights, federal authority, and the place of non-Americans in American society. The military records highlight the failure of Congress to provide adequate funds for an enormous and unnecessary military...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...blacks battled to end segregation altogether, Mexican American white racial formation ran counter to African American aims" (8). Rather than trying to destroy an inherently unjust social order, "Mexican American...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...I was the principal investigator for two of these (the MetaArchive and AmericanSouth), which brought in some six hundred thousand dollars to the Emory Libraries. These grants inaugurated a new...
Religion and the US South
...Indigenous peoples had their own religious systems that the coming of European Christianity disrupted, but the Native American presence left a spiritual legacy. More tangible influences of spirit-related health practices...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...Brothers, Residence at 2719 Jefferson Street, single-story wood frame, shotgun interior full front porch with gable and trellis, Tampa, Florida. Catalog No.: PA 5780. American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html American Memory is...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...demonstration clubs for women. The segregated Negro Extension Service operated out of African American land grant universities and was supervised by white land grant schools. Still, African Americans eked out...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...the Ad Hoc collection, Georgia Archives, University System of Georgia. Bottom, John Ross House, Rossville, Georgia, 1952. Courtesy of the National Park Service. The lottery wheel had been turning for...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...col. 2, Valley of the Shadow online, http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/news/vv1866/va.au.vv.1866.02.21.xml#03; U.D. Poe to P.P. Cleveland, April 30, 1867, Valley of the Shadow online, http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/papers/B0192 source available NARA BRFAL, RG 105; P. Cleveland...