"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...resulted in the founding of the San Antonio Conservation Society, which successfully lobbied against this measure and was tasked with overseeing future development of the area. Delayed by the Great...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...plied their needles . . . with great dexterity and neatness. The cutlers completed their work to great perfection. . . . We also visited the shops of the various...
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...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...Thomson made "cautious bids" to prevent being discovered.11Ibid., 332. He wrote "Great Auction Sale of Slaves at Savannah, Georgia, March 2d and 3d, 1859," published in The New-York Tribune, on...
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...
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...