Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
Review The defeat of the Confederacy, the prospect of military occupation and Republican state government, and the financial collapse of many plantations and businesses sent a number of white southerners...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...an odd pair, beat impossible odds, living their conjoined life with grit and gusto. In this excerpted chapter, "Mount Airy, or Monticello," Huang investigates the history, implications, and contradictions of...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...Their torsos curved, their hair curled, and their lips smiled. They wore forties and fifties dresses and ribbons in their hair, and they bopped and shook when they performed like...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...Brickner, October 12, 1961, box 5, folder 8, Rothschild Papers, 1933–1985, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta. Rothschild was active in a number of liberal organizations, including...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...pop air, signal both renewal and reorientation from within the very wreckage of late modernity" (213). Sweet Air is a valiant attempt to understand the ways in which the forces...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...St. Augustine, Florida, stands the "old slave market," an open-air pavilion where enslaved Africans were bought and sold (Figures 1–3). Since its construction in the early nineteenth century, the waterfront...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...was firm, his head held high, his form imposing and vigorous; save the remarkable whiteness of his curly hair, nothing betrayed his age. As is common in that country, he...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...For example, researchers calculate the number of Latinos attending schools with more than 50% minority enrollments in district X divided by the total number of Latinos in school district X....
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...2, 3. The palimpsest of near-faded and faint dashed lines amid bold city lines and plots excoriated in grid form show in this map alone, the nearly 140 years of...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...autonomy after World War II (1939–1945) in 1948, the aviation infrastructure was divided into the Kelly Air Force Base, the Randolph Air Force Base, and the Lackland Air Force Base.7John...