Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...the ambitions of the builders of American trade empires. He successfully repositions European maps as texts about power rather than information, and local maps as geographies of relationships. In the...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...especially, of African Americans in the early twentieth century. In the late 1800s, a "colored" high school opened in LaFollette that served, at its peak, nearly one hundred African American...
Brushes with War
...and organized by Smithsonian Museum of American Art curator Eleanor Jones Harvey, "The Civil War and American Art" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) was an impressive exhibition. The...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...digitized materials makes American Memory the most diverse and comprehensive digital archive of American history and culture freely available and easily accessible to the public.4See http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/about/ for more information about...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...American Immigration to Atlanta.” Southern Spaces, May 19, 2006. https://southernspaces.org/2006/global-lives-local-struggles-latin-american-immigrants-atlanta Smith, James. “Guatemala: Economic Migrants Replace Political Refugees,” Migration Policy Institute, Migration Information Source, April 2006. http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?id=392 return to top...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...American South. His numerous essays and reviews appear in such journals as the Southern Literary Journal, Southern Quarterly, Mississippi Quarterly, American Literature, Southern Studies, Studies in American Humor, American Quarterly,...
Palomares Bajo
...an exercise in outrage at military duplicity. It is, as Eric Sandeen describes Misrach's work, an attempt "to situate American vision, to anchor American memory, in the ruins of modernity."...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...Americans and told of hardships they faced under segregation, Raymond spent as much time telling about the joys and aspirations of his characters as he did the awfulness of the...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...depth. Since race is pervasive in American society, a wide variety of topics and research strategies would be fruitful for study. The development of the African American community in Atlanta,...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...by 2007/08 African American enrollment grew by 40,607 high school students so that African Americans now comprise just under 50 percent of total enrollments. Latino high school student enrollment grew...