Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...lower third of the sack in 1921: My great grandmother Rose mother of Ashley gave her this sack when she was sold at age 9 in South Carolina it held...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...to a nearby oil and gas field, the industry and state agencies expressed serious reservations. Jason P. Theriot's American Energy, Imperiled Coast chronicles the development of science and policy surrounding the...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...of a singular historical tragedy. They point to greater ambiguity in the choices available to the Cherokees who found a brief measure of justice in the federal government’s protection of...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...of what demographers are calling the New Great Migration, the movement of African Americans to the South from northern and midwestern cities.6The "New Great Migration" title stems from the fact...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...companies created desirable destinations to entice users into the streetcar. In their plan to bring patrons to Ponce, Atlanta entrepreneurs envisioned a number of novel attractions. However, most of their...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...the midwestern and southwestern regions once controlled by Mississippian chiefdoms. He rejects the primacy of disease in the collapse of chiefdoms, instead using European traders’ accounts and limited archaeological evidence...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
...lives. Six years ago, I helped found the Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project, a community history project that has since engaged hundreds of local people in the process of researching...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
... This essay reveals a troubling pattern: for Latinos and African Americans, public high schools in the Metro Atlanta region are experiencing significant racial shifts with greater levels of segregation than...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...Kelley and the named plaintiffs, because all were in higher grades. Judge Miller, while expressing reservations of his own, reluctantly ordered the plan to be implemented in September 1957, with...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
..."On Being Black," New Republic, 21, no. 272, February 18, 1920. Such emotions were unlikely to abate as Jim Crow travelers progressed on to their destinations. White railroad station personnel...