The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...to defend regional and local cultural authority.1Susan Douglas, Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004), 57. Douglas suggests that, though now mostly lost to...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-pga-02582. After they had been milled, the blocks of Seneca sandstone were transported down the canal to Georgetown and along the canal that then ran beside...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...could smell traces of the enslaved, trapped in time and space; the mixed odors of sweat and human excreta exist there today. Fifteen miles from Cape-Coast Castle is Elmina Castle,...
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...
Encountering COVID
...I spoke with recently said, "I can't talk about it." She started the dialogue and then she said, "I can't. I've just put this away in a compartment. I just can't...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. that has experienced rapid population growth over the last forty years; the Census South reached 114,555,744 residents in...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007); and Schulman, From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt. The Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant located in Burke...
Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
...Decatur, Georgia for nearly a decade, came upon this episode in Atlanta's history while researching a magazine article. In this exclusive Southern Spaces interview, he speaks with Joseph Crespino about the sources...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...the claim that the district is exceptionally large, see "Anderson County, South Carolina," Carolana, accessed July 20, 2022, https://www.carolana.com/SC/Counties/anderson_county_sc.html. It features over fifty buildings dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...as attention-getting. WDBJ Interview with Vivian Carter Mason. Vivian Carter Mason presented a calm and reasoned account of the first day of integrated schools in Norfolk. She affirmed that both...