American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...to a nearby oil and gas field, the industry and state agencies expressed serious reservations. Jason P. Theriot's American Energy, Imperiled Coast chronicles the development of science and policy surrounding the...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...a classroom model. I founded a fictional group, "Friends of Salt Creek," built a website, and started exploring with my students.2For a timeline see Friends of Salt Creek, Accessed April...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...barriers designed to prevent "undesirables" from entering. In fact, these sites were not the harbingers of mass culture, but carefully regulated spaces that emphasized the social conventions established outside its...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...Mexican Americans should be included in the official history of medical exclusion in the United States" (283). Racial and ethnic prejudice and illness have combined in potent ways to justify...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...an official in Middlesex County conveyed to the Bureau's assistant commissioner for the state, Colonel Orlando Brown, his approval that freedpeople would receive state sanction for marriage; he hoped, however,...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
Essay Another Mother's Day has come and gone and still no officially supported memorial honors the Freedom Riders at the site where civil rights workers braved the vicious firebombing of...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...role in the Free Young Men's Benevolent Association, later known as the Colored Union Benevolent Association, which in 1870 established Mt. Pleasant Plains Cemetery (now the site of Walter Pierce...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
Introduction: Unusual Sympathies In 1811 a prominent Choctaw woman named Molly McDonald placed her eleven-year-old son in the home of Silas Dinsmoor, an unpopular US government official who had just established...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...from the tourists who stream up the hill to the Kennedy gravesite and the Arlington House. Breaking the contemplative quiet are the occasional maintenance vehicles that keep the cemetery pristine,...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...official and unofficial censorship boards, namely Atlanta film censor, Christine Smith (later Gilliam) and the Georgia Literature Commission, led by James Wesberry, a Baptist minister. When Atlantans discussed homosexuality publicly...