A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...subject’s glamour or moralizing over its ugliness, two common pitfalls for anyone writing about New Orleans. Maunsel White, Map 1814–1815 New Orleans, 1815. From Library of Congress Map Collections, 2007627049....
From Raw Cotton to Cloth
Introduction Opened in 1968, the Katherine plant was the last of four Springs cotton mills operating in Chester, South Carolina. Hughes and Hall captured these images shortly before the plant...
Birth Right
...Statistics. Infant Mortality Slideshow. Montgomery, Alabama: Alabama Department of Public Health, 2008. Advocates assert that midwives could also help lower the state's high infant mortality rate of 9.5 deaths per 1,000...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
...his compatriots took up arms against the United States in order to preserve a society based on slave labor and white supremacy. Stephanie Batiste-Bentham, an African American interpreter who worked...
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, DC
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: Part 2: White describes the lengths both men went to in an attempt to gain subsidies and credit for their respective railroads Part 3: White shows...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...Cambridge University Press, 1981); Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984); Christine Stansell, City of...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...the United States. Along Auburn Avenue in the Fourth Ward on the east side, where most of Atlanta's Black elite lived, a new stage of enterprise unfolded. An African American...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...a sense, the study of race has no geographical limits. The force of racism is global. The specific impact of race, however, will vary nationally and regionally. In the United...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...this region that includes counties with some of the highest rates of poverty and highest percentages of Democratic voters in the United States. "I truly thank him for coming. It...
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...gerrymandering; voter suppression; voting patterns) Pandemic voting (voting rights; ballot initiatives; mail-in voting; voter access; United States Postal Service) Political activism (social justice; movements and mobilization; countermovements; grassroots efforts; the...