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...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...Doraville, Georgia. Photo by Mary Odem, 2001 Procession for the Peruvian celebration of the feast day of El Señor de los Milagros. Doraville, Georgia. Photo by Mary Odem, 2000...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...sold by street peddlers. Its presence alongside other drugs and alcohol seized during police raids bolstered its prominence.22For two examples, see "Police Capture Weed, Wine and Owners in Raid," Times-Picayune...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...of government power. Top, Robert John Walker, ca. 1844–1860. Photograph by Matthew B. Brady. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/pictures/item/2004664076. Bottom, David Wilmot, 1857. Print...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...9, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/04/was-the-art-of-s-town-worth-the-pain/522366/; Aja Romano, "S-Town is a stunning podcast. It probably shouldn't have been made," Vox, April 1, 2017, https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/3/30/15084224/s-town-review-controversial-podcast-privacy. Around the same time that plans for a movie...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...Latino populations have been growing faster than in other areas of the country.7Richard Fry, Latino Settlement in the New Century, October 23, 2008 (Washington, DC: Pew Hispanic Center), http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/96.pdf. For...
An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
...Mississippi John Hurt." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "Sweep." Poem text. In this interview at the 2009 Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Chicago, Illinois, Rodney...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...often had the experience of knowing more than the interviewees could (or would) recall. The archive also provided photographs, manuscript pages, and personal effects (prizes and keepsakes). Since I was...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...and sugar, plus vinegar and salt for preservatives. Food packed in 200-pound barrels was placed in storehouses until distribution. Each day soldiers drew rations of flour to make their own...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...were established earlier. Rather than looking forward to an antebellum, plantation South, Dubcovsky persistently qualifies and enhances her arguments about indigenous power by gesturing towards the pre-Columbian past. Top: De...