Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...con-suetudinario y memoria: práctica jurídica y costumbre en Castilla y León (siglos XI–XIV) (Madrid: Universidad Carlos III, 2012); Yanna Yannakakis, The Art of Being In-Between: Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity and...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...camp "for lone men who are under care in the United States Public Health Service clinic.108Ibid. Inside Camp Garraday, date unknown. Courtesy of the Garland County Historical Society and Elliott...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...Vice, April 13, 2017, https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/aemwqg/s-town-and-the-loneliness-of-being-gay-in-the-rural-south; Michael A. Lindenberger, "S-Town Humanizes the Haunting Isolation of Gays in Rural America," Dallas Morning News, May 3, 2017, https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/05/03/john-bs-loneliness-tells-us-homosexual-life-rural-america. ) Olin Long tells of...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...the cadaver of an unknown black man, and hanged it on campus, in what one commentator called a "sham lynching," the Horton Commercial complained that many Kansas papers had suppressed...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...is insidious, however, and it seems unlikely that any population in North America—and most especially in the US South—can live outside it or wield it as a strategic tool, to...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...wedding photos, family photos, travel photos, scores of newspaper clippings, publicity material, ID cards, VHS cassettes of television appearances. His life was in those boxes, tucked away but ready for...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...rapid onset of symptoms and death captured the attention of the state health department—especially since some had the capacity to be fatal in strikingly small doses. DDT caused few deaths,...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...Cane, Louisiana, photograph by Debbie Fleming Caffery © 1999. See more at the Jennifer Schwartz Gallery. Caffery’s photographs in “Outlands” dramatize the interaction of people with the Louisiana Bayou landscape, creating a...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...a South stretched into transnational flows of bodies, cultures, and capital? In the contemporary South, who can invoke and be part of its past, and to what ends? How do...
The Carolina Piedmont
...the fall line left the growing number of Carolina Piedmont farmers largely to their own resources and social arrangements in the root-hot-or-die decades. Although the Carolina Piedmont has shared in...