The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...public health history.6On hookworm eradication in the US South, see John Ettling, The Germ of Laziness: Rockefeller Philanthropy and Public Health in the New South (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...the South and slavery in national politics—not for distributing power within the South's own all-white male politics. At the time of the Constitution's drafting, no southern state government permitted slaveholding...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...the North. Historian Brett Gadsden describes Delaware as "a provincial hybrid, one in which ostensibly southern and northern modes of race relations operated."30Brett Gadsden, Between North and South: Delaware, Desegregation,...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...Life and Death Raymond Andrews during the Korean War, still from Somebody Else, Somewhere Else, 2010. Raymond Andrews was a personable, talented man who embodied so much of the cultural...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...at the time of the Stonewall Riots. Number of queer businesses listed in Houston, 1941–2015. Dataset by Brian Riedel, 2015. Line graph by William Robert Billups, 2020. Courtesy of Southern...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...entice curious northerners and reassure anxious southerners. Postcards from other cities similarly promoted their slave markets as tourist attractions, often with as conflicting historical and imaginary meanings as those of...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...Harbor, just south of the city's previously moribund but now skyrocketing downtown. As one journeys southwest, going upstream, the creek services a working port (properties now eyed for luxury housing)....
Cajun South Louisiana
...the prairie districts. South Louisiana joined other parts of the South in embracing slavery and southern rights in the 1850s. The Civil War brought increased outside influence in the bayous...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...Scruggs before, but never so close to the source. They hit him hard.14Cohen interview; John Cohen, "A Visitor's Recollections," in Allen Tullos, ed., Long Journey Home: Folklife in the South (Southern Exposure,...
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
...Karl Rove built directly upon Nixon’s Southern Strategy Part 4: Egerton reflects upon the contradictions of the South, highlighting the importance of racial integration and rural life Part 5: Egerton highlights the...