The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
The largest proportion of LGBTQ+ Americans—thirty-five percent—live in the southeastern states from Maryland and West Virginia down to Texas and Oklahoma.1Amira Hasenbush, Andrew R. Flores, Angeliki Kastanis, Brad Sears, and...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...and create ways to live in a particular place, a process that included imagination and adaptation as well as habitation. Paulett finds that the geography of place varied with those...
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...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...Carolina (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012), 276. We all live in communities. In a sense, no one really lives in the United States but in neighborhoods, towns, and counties....
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...majority of the young African American students lived in a household with a television. Nearly 70 percent owned televisions in their homes, and only 5 percent lived in homes without...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...during Congressional hearings in both Houses.3See Hearings before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Judiciary Committee, House of Representatives, on H.R. 1407, H.R. 1731, H.R. 2942, H.R....
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,...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...officials and, particularly, an ambitious northern Mexican commercial class to attract US settlement and trade during the first half of the nineteenth century.5Andrés Reséndez, Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...patients were cattle herders, tobacco and banana pickers, domestic workers, and washers. Most of these patients lived in the highlands. Many were itinerant workers who moved from plantation to plantation...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...2002), 132–149; and Thomas R. Peake, Keeping the Dream Alive: A History of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference from King to the Nineteen-Eighties, (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1987). The...