Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...intersections and with the hash tag, challenging and revolutionizing American life. "Queer Square Spaces," Collage by Eric Solomon, March 2019. In this article, I suggest that the latest "revolutionary" movement...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...monthly payments can mean the difference between destitution and modest survival.4This estimate of the number of black lung beneficiaries is extrapolated from data on the number of claims filed each...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...Georgia Archives. Colson's crusade against DDT began in 1945, the same year the pesticide emerged from the Second World War as an American miracle. First synthesized by an Austrian chemist...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...Books. These "sister" organizations live and work symbiotically, with Charis Circle hosting book groups, writing groups, and author readings, as well as an ever-increasing number of social justice programs focusing...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...point. It contributed to Abraham Lincoln's re-election in November 1864, the Union's eventual restoration, and slavery's end. Making a Spectacle of Nationalism Theodore R. Davis explained in an 1886 article,...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...also the places that African American editors and leaders viewed as the clearest examples of discrimination of segregation and the anti-democratic nature of the South's social system. Segregation in schools,...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...with their stories, and I heard a lot of them. The Clearing, of course, is about this damaged veteran who returns shell-shocked. I had an uncle that was in all...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...diversity is part of what I love about the journal (I once found my own article cited on a blog about football). It's clear from readership analytics that our policy...
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."...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...Guatemala. And while men still make up the majority of Maya migrants, a growing number of women and children have joined husbands, fathers, and brothers in Georgia, resulting in a...