Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...also situates these lynchings within a process of modernization that was occurring in the county. Salisbury, the county seat, was a rural town, but, not unlike other localities in which...
Lawrence newspaper
...a family affair, and if they don’t keep their hands out of it, Kansas is likely to back Leavenworth up to sail in and do it again. Kansas demands for...
Topeka newspapers
...colored Knights of Pythias of the state, and it was his Knights of Pythias badge that aroused the southern hostility of the Texans. They didn't like to see a "nigger"...
Horton newspaper
...to practice lynching a dead Negro it only shows their inclination to lynch a live one, which is likely prevented through cowardice." Published: 6 September 2007 © 2007 Brent M.S....
The Bulletin—February 11, 2013
...groups that had longer waits than their counterparts (whites, Republicans, non-urban dwellers). As reported in The New York Times, long waiting times depressed turnout in states like Florida, where residents waited an average...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...music. When he brings up the role of satire in progressive country songs, his arguments can become strained. Like 1970s glam, progressive country, suggests Mellard, can provide a level of...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...efficiency, explaining that "brave Bourbonites incentivized the first businesses to return, and seeded the re-formation of an economy—not just Bourbon's, but that of the entire city. . . . Unlike...
St. Thomas Church Supper near Bardstown, Kentucky, August 7, 1940
...workers are called "parishoners" and the black workers are unidentified, it appears that the second image likely fits into expected paradigms of race and labor. The photograph of lamb and...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...soil at the Savannah River Plant in South Carolina. Like Goldstein, Howard aims to "counteract cultural amnesia" about the events, termed "the worst nuclear weapons disaster" in history. Moving to...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...In his discussion of the complex racial realities of early New Orleans and, indeed, in his work as a whole, Powell builds on the formidable efforts of previous historians like...