Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Fred Fussell offers additional geographical and historical notes in A Chattahoochee Album: It is believed that Native American people . . . had lived in and around the Lower Chattahoochee...
Searcy County Livestock Auction
...County Livestock Auction sat just south of Marshall, the county seat. Tony Bratton, a local farmer, opened the auction in 1947. Jack Simpkins bought it in 1955 and ran it...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...already, in the antebellum era, opossum consumption factored into a display of racial domination. Hunting methods, such as capturing opossums live to fatten at home and clean out their digestive...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...they tell a story central to Arlington and mirror an even larger story of black Americans who lived through the transitions from slavery to segregation. Here rest roughly 3,800 people...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...the health of livestock and people. When a small land owner felt this effect, she argued, he abandoned the hazardous substances. The "big land owner," by contrast, lived in town,...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...serve the propagandist aims of the Historical Section through images that "provide highly mediated insights into the lived experiences of the underclass and, necessarily, encourage intuitive or counterfactual readings." This...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...States. It lives in people, some of whom have no knowledge of its origins but cope with the ever-present longing and lack it causes."1"Liturgy of Remembrance, Contrition, and Hope," Georgetown...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...made, however, still stand in the Presbyterian churchyards of specific communities. Their dated stones memorialize particular people. Elsewhere the lives of these people and their neighbors are more fully recorded....
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...live the paradox of economic growth alongside urban blight in Atlanta. As Nadim Ali, a committed member of the Community Masjid mosque, told me, "We live in the West End...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...that queer territories functioned in part because some who do not identify as "queer" also imagined those territories as connected to queer lives. This distributed social knowledge is the kind...