An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...last weekend of July, at the White Plains Baptist Church, which the twins had helped build with their bare hands on a hill adjacent to the farmland that still belongs...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials 1871–1872 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996); Nicholas Lemann, Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War (New York: Farrar, Straus and...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...Medical Association committed itself to the crusade against hookworm in order to uplift the "enervated and atrophied spirit of our race."30Manuel Quevedo Baez to Bailey K. Ashford, December 16, 1903,...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...remembers 'that chairs were placed on the balcony of the two-story building to accommodate the crowds gathered to witness the lynching,' while he stayed behind locked doors in his office,...
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...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...towns to Miami Beach and back. Dixie Highway foregrounds the political challenges in conceiving and creating an integrated, cross-country road in an era when the United States lacked a coordinated...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...or ignored the Depression and portrayed the country, as Hoover himself did, in business-as-usual terms," notes cultural historian Morris Dickstein. "This virtual blackout of bad news gave impetus to the...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...that Appalachian studies isn't interdisciplinary enough? For instance, urban planners, demographers, and ethnographers (among others) are needed to understand urban Appalachia, immigration, housing, and employment. To be fully interdisciplinary, Appalachian...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...like the big bass. It looks like a bass. So the musicians as I spoke about like Milford Dolliole and Tio with Chocolate Milk, which is a funk band—and there...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...that took place on Civil War battlefields to something like Pac-Man. On the other hand, in "The Face of Battle" exhibit, visitors can walk into a 360 degree virtual battlefield,...