Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...that history solely in relation to the context of British colonialism, for science and empire entwined in the Gulf South for nearly three hundred years prior to US founding and...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...offered this alternative. Charleston's ex-slaves expressed the counter-narrative in vibrant public festivals and Emancipation Day celebrations near the end of the Civil War and throughout Reconstruction, reflecting the freedmen and...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...at the Brite Ranch, near Marfa, Texas, 1918. Photograph by unknown creator. Courtesy of The Portal to Texas History, University of North Texas Libraries and Marfa Public Library. In labeling...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...June 2009, “more than eight million Americans lost their jobs, nearly four million were foreclosed each year, and 2.5 million businesses were shuttered.”1Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, “The Great Recession: Over but...
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...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...By examining the transshipment of oil and gas, light and heavy manufacturing, and agribusiness, we can begin to see a nexus that stretches out to touch nearly every part of...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...liberal reputation, blacks lived under stifling restrictions. Whites in El Paso limited Blacks to certain areas, such as the second ward neighborhood near downtown. This could be done in subtle...
The Bulletin—July 2, 2013
...and the jury sentenced her to die by lethal injection. Governor Rick Perry has presided over 301 of Texas's executions, which make up nearly forty percent of total US executions....
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...Goodwin would recall the staggering prevalence of malaria throughout the South in an interview nearly thirty years later: . . . Every commercial and educational activity had to plan on...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Stephanie Dowda on Topophilia
...encounter with The Lightning Field in New Mexico, an installation piece by renowned sculptor, Walter De Maria. Dowda describes the piece as a quarter-mile long desert field installed with nearly...