Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...Moore's article "The Mysterious Death of William Richardson: Kinship, Female Vulnerability, and the Myth of Supernaturalism in the Southern Backcountry," North Carolina Historical Review 80, no. 3 (July 2003): 283,...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...such as the Civil War, the agricultural depression of the late nineteenth century, and the transition from a rural to an urban and industrialized economy. In each of these instances,...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...(Fleming), who became pregnant at age seventeen and eloped with the baby's father, Cricket Fleming. The baby, a son named Richard, died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome only a few...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...and cruising area at the back. That said, I am also grateful for a reminder from an anonymous peer reviewer that "owners of bath houses, bars, or cinemas sometimes faced...
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,...
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...
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,...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...saying that civilization itself was a bad thing. That would never do, because whites grounded their claims to racial dominance on the superiority of their civilization. For many southern doctors,...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...stand in 1963, but were surprised at the building's level of decay: the administration warned us that structural instability might cause the roof to collapse while filming. We decided to...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...the "South." Top, "Walk by bayshore, Bayfront Park," Miami, Florida. Postcard published by Standard Drug and Sundry Co. Photograph by G. W. Romer. Courtesy of Florida Memory, State Library &...