DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...who ate the most bread suffered lasting neurological damage, but all survived.30Richard M. Garrett, "Toxicity of DDT for Man," Journal of the Medical Association of Alabama 17, no. 2 (1947):...
Genres of Southern Literature
...user Lord_of_the_Flies. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Southern literature is substantially recognizable as contingent upon certain identifiers: geographic, social, cultural, political, as well as historical and linguistic contingencies that...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...York and Atlanta, most others ("The Displaced Person," "Greenleaf," and "The Enduring Chill") describe " atypical life" on working farms like Andalusia. Writing Rural Georgia O'Connor makes rural Georgia the...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
The Shenandoah Valley
...they were under constant challenge from large tribes on all sides. To the north the powerful and dominant Susquehanna moved into the Valley at several points to travel south and...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...it to use "all lawful means to bring about a reversal" of the Brown decision. Although they did not sanction violence, this defiance of federal authority nonetheless fostered a political...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...Along the Alcovy River. Covington: Georgia Wildlife Federation, 2011. This small community of Angeline Sims's collateral descendants, her descendants recall, lived along the Alcovy upstream of the railway trestle, and...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...yet they were also supposed to remain permanent youth whose social, political, and intellectual maturity was constantly deferred. Those who believed they could incorporate Indian people into the United States...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...excellent Petrochemical America, depicts the grim outcomes of the collision between oil and gas extraction and Louisiana people.4Gwen Ottinger, "Peopling Petrochemical America: A Review," Southern Spaces, November 26, 2013, https://southernspaces.org/2013/petrochemical-america-petrochemical-addiction#ottinger....
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...(1897): 251–253. Hot Springs's selection as the site of the federal government's "model" VD clinic would not have surprised early twentieth-century Americans.10C.N. Myers, "Hot Springs and the Model Federal Venereal...