"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...Less than a year later, on April 21, 1836, the Republic of Texas became official when Texians, Tejanos, and US volunteers defeated Santa Anna and his troops at the Battle...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...by W.L. Shepard. Originally published in Harper's Weekly (January 1, 1881) XXV., No. 1253, 5. Image produced by ProQuest LLC as part of ProQuest® HarpWeek Archive. www.proquest.com. Image published with...
Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry
Presentation About the Author John Howard is Emeritus Professor of Arts and Humanities at King's College London. He is interested in the historical production of human differences and their attendant...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...During the Depression few people were willing to spring for the price of tickets, and drive-ins slowly appeared on the outskirts of other urban areas, such as Galveston, Texas, Los...
Editors
...former managing editor of the SRC’s quarterly journal, Southern Changes. Her most recent book, Rethinking the American Environmental Movement Post-1945, was published by Routledge Press in 2019. William G. Thomas III John and Catherine...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...a smaller number of high school and college-educated immigrants who worked as teachers, journalists, and in other professional fields in Guatemala.5Allan F. Burns, Maya in Exile: Guatemalans in Florida (Philadelphia:...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), which won the 2019 Rembert Patrick Award and the 2019 Stetson Kennedy Award from the Florida Historical Society. She is currently at work...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...because it was unusual to me. I'd never seen any place like it in Florida. In 2004 I started a new photographic project called Primitive Florida. I felt that I...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...ed. The Kentucky Encyclopedia (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 210. Downtown Hazard, Kentucky, late 1950s from www.hazardkentucky.com. Before he started photographing, Cohen spent a few days walking the streets of...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...and similarly split districts in surrounding Davidson County, under Superintendent J. E. Moss. In round numbers, there were about ten thousand black students and twenty thousand whites in the city...