Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...on specific actions or policies of the school board (79). This occurred, too, alongside Wake County's own political revolution (27). The county had consistently backed Democratic gubernatorial and presidential candidates...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...along the Gulf of Mexico and a greater naval presence in the South. The navy was central to the international perspective of slaveholders—to defend against British-led abolitionist incursions and to...
The Bulletin—October 2, 2012
...James Meredith enrolled at the university amid violent riots in 1962. National Public Radio marked the anniversary on its Morning Edition, Tell Me More, and All Things Considered programs by...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...cost of housing and safer neighborhoods that the South seemed to offer.12Mary Odem, “Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigration to Atlanta,” Southern Spaces, May 19, 2006, https://southernspaces.org/2006/global-lives-local-struggles-latin-american-immigrants-atlanta; Odem and...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...fruit. In 1928, the federal government subsidized the construction of the only hospital in all of Nashoba County. Located in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the hospital was reserved exclusively for Indians. States'...
Call for Proposals for the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
Emory University's Digital Scholarship Commons is excited to invite proposals for presentations at the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium. The day-long symposium will be held on April 26, 2013 in...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...vernacular dialect; ludicrous or crudely comic situations often involving violence; trickster figures; local lore and rural community customs. Although the southwestern humorists were generally well-placed southern gentlemen, what happens in...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...for multicultural societies. Is the US South well along the path of desegregating its history? African American history is increasingly prominent in museums, educational institutions, and public rituals, although there...
Roadside Architecture
...small-town settings. None of the structures depicted was designed to be beautiful, at least in any consciously architectural or aesthetic sense. Each is above all functional, its physical form deriving...
White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta
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