Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
Introduction: Series Editor's Note Martin Padgett's A Night at the Sweet Gum Head explores a cast of historical actors who shaped modern LGBTQ+ politics and culture in 1970s Atlanta, Georgia....
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
Introduction The blades of grass on all the Butler estates are outnumbered by the tears that are poured out in agony at the wreck that has been wrought in happy...
Searcy County Livestock Auction
Video and Essay Searcy County. A short video by Noam Osband, 2012. Searcy County is a sparsely populated area in the Ozark region on US Highway 65 between Little Rock,...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
Introduction Introduced in a 1995 song by the Atlanta-based group Goodie Mob, the idea of the "Dirty South" spread quickly throughout the rap music subculture and industry, and by the...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...trapped in her cheap pastel poster. Maybe he'd say his life was like a brand-new house fallen in on its foundation. In thirty years the kudzu covers it, and no...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...in the US—to be white people descended from Scot-Irish, emigrants, fleeing poverty in Europe, moving from the eastern seaports of the US further south and east, looking for cheap land —...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...the Spartanburg Herald on May 19, 1875, offered "Singer's celebrated sewing machines, the cheapest and the best sewing machine, for sale on easy terms." In the same issue, McK. Johnstone...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
Introduction U.S. Public Health Service Advertisements, ca. 1905. Photograph by Harris & Ewing. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/resource/hec.20772/. In the winter of 1936, Minnie...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...the town's industrial capacity and access to natural resources and cheap labor. As Spears notes, Anniston was founded as an experiment during Reconstruction and by the 1880s had been dubbed...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...for cheap melodrama, but the point gets across: Mason loves and respects his father, but he isn't about to pretend that the past didn't play out the way it did...