DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...changes. Drawn by abundant natural resources and state governments promising low-wage and non-unionized labor and cheap (or free) land, military installations sprang up and expanded, and a host of industrial...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...As rising tension elevated the potential for violence, numbers increasingly favored the Georgians. Fewer than nine thousand Cherokees lived on land sought by nearly 220,000 Georgians and awarded to 54,500...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...MARBL.) At the end of Raymond's life, he and Benny had acrimonious phone conversations and exchanged angry letters. The letters referenced the phone conversations and expanded on them. By 1990,...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...For example, researchers calculate the number of Latinos attending schools with more than 50% minority enrollments in district X divided by the total number of Latinos in school district X....
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...places. Understanding the ways that place-based identities change within rap is of central importance.[/fn] Photograph of Atlanta’s Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz at a local landmark (Ichiban Records,...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...of bureaucracy did not nest cleanly. While federal initiative may have prompted action, in Virginia, as in a number of other southern states, the cohabitation registrations came about through state...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...Bailey K. Ashford immortalized his first hookworm patients in a photograph. The caption reads: "Photograph of a number of natives of Puerto Rico, showing pernicious anemia due to Ankylostoma duodenale."...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...make television a potentially powerful instrument for change.4Some media historians question whether television was so powerful, whether it helped shape public opinion at all. In a recent essay on television's...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), 10. Along with the automobile, telephone, and electricity, radio emerged as a key technological component in the negotiations between rural people and government agencies over...
Religion and the US South
...provided justification for the wealthy to profit from economic development, but it also gave meaning to those bearing the burdens of economic change without proper recompense. Throughout such changes, religious...