North Carolina: A State of Shock
...Carolina, Governor McCrory and the state's house speaker acknowledged that voter impersonation was not a problem, but they insisted that the new election laws were necessary to restore confidence—"confidence" that...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...making is a convoluted process. Is that what you were envisioning for these two works? Lawson: That’s exactly how I imagined the pieces would be interpreted. Art and religion can...
When the Border Crossed Me
...already known that Mexican people, men mostly, had started coming to central North Carolina. I knew many of them processed hogs or poultry, and that others worked on dairy or...
Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...antebellum Deep South during the cotton boom of the 1820s. The book's contributors argue that Louisiana's early history can only be understood by adopting an Atlantic perspective—one that considers its...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...against Stevens products and the stores that sold them. The United Presbyterian Church identified three Biblical concepts that supported workers' right to organize and passed a resolution that urged its...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...there are stories that have been underreported in the press that we should focus on with their expertise." Hatfield says although Emory publishes the site, it's the cooperative nature of...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...is right behind my office here and there is simply no acknowledgement of that fact," says Spirit of Anniston director Bean. "The dailiness of the segregation story, that's what we...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...8. The Southern Exodus to Mexico makes a more convincing case that white southerners endeavored to promote cross-border business after the Civil War and that the increased publicity of Mexico's...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...That notion was precisely what had stoked the greatest fears of the Charleston "Lynch men": the possibility that abolitionist tracts might incite violent slave uprisings.12Wyly-Jones, "A New Look," 1. William...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...concluded that "it is not sufficient to say that I should have to take food with me or that I should have lived on grapes and peanuts. If I am...