Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...Pride Houston. There were two queer bookstores, a free monthly magazine, and several free weekly papers. Soon, I was working for one of those papers, distributing copies all over the...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...and more.10Edmund Russell, War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 127–129, 155. National news outlets...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...well into a developing narrative in which the Old and New South were romanticized and welcomed back to a new nationalism, and in which devotion alone made everyone right, and...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...Eugenical News.62See for example, Koya, “The Program for Family Planning in Japan,” Eugenical News 38, n. 1 (March 1953): 1-3; “A Study of Induced Abortion in Japan and Its Significance,”...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...and a key railroad supply line, amounted to a major defensive victory for the Union forces.1Steven E. Woodworth, Nothing But Victory: The Army of the Tennessee, 1861–1865 (New York: Alfred...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...prospects of the white freemen of South Carolina who do not own slaves, etc."17"Law in South-Carolina," New York Tribune, reprinted in Lancaster (PA) Examiner, August 1, 1849. As this paper...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...Johnson, and Brian J. Gilley (New York: NYU Press, 2016), 329, 331. Frank Thompson and friend at Stauch Bath House, Coney Island, New York City, New York, 1940–1953. Courtesy of...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...Diseases, ed. William Josephus Robinson (New York: The Altrurians, 1909). For historical studies on this, see Theodor Rosebury, Microbes and Morals: The Strange Story of Venereal Disease (New York: Viking...
Genres of Southern Literature
Introduction Booklover's Map of the United States, 1949. Map by Amy Jones. Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA-3.0. "Southern literature" announces the conjunction...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...Emma Lirette, "Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters," Southern Spaces, April 17, 2013, https://southernspaces.org/blog/category-3-gentrification-new-orleanss-population-trends-and-hostility-internet-commenters. Campanella's characterization of black New Orleanians is as...