The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...they submitted fecal samples for microscopic examination. Once their clinical history was recorded, each patient received a brief lecture on hookworm and an identification card with their case number.41"Comisión de...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...Career of Marihuana: Politics and Ideology of Drug Control in America (Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 1983); Dale H. Gieringer, "The Forgotten Origins of Cannabis Prohibition in California," Contemporary Drug Problems...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...were few established businesses, mainstream organizations or tradition-minded civic leaders around. There were, however, plenty of cheap rental properties available and an "anything is possible" view of the future.6According to...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...historical mission through preservation of the cars. Nancy Marshall and John McWilliams, Award truck at Low Country Travelers car show, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, 2010. By-laws state that members must...
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...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...The Country Terry Rivas, Carolyn Weathers, Yolanda, Brenda Weathers, and Anita Ornelas in the "thicket" in back of The Country, near San Antonio, Texas, June 1961. Courtesy of the Carolyn...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...forge a sense of identity and community simply by meeting in bars or bookstores. Car culture was central: men met men in cars for sex, shared cars to travel back...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...historically related sacred music cultures, see Paula Tadlock, "Shape-Note Singing in Mississippi," in Discourse in Ethnomusicology: Essays in Honor of George List, ed. Caroline Card et al. (Bloomington: Ethnomusicology Publications...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...enslaved labor contributed substantially to the city's economy and the Confederate war effort. Slaves in Atlanta carried out non-agricultural tasks, including iron forging, cabinet making, carpentry, brick masonry, blacksmithing, and—most...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...Richardson stone used in Peter N. Moore's World of Toil and Strife: Community Transformation in Backcountry South Carolina, 1750–1805 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007), 39, illustrates the problem....