Religion and the US South
...South was the movement of increasing numbers of settlers into backcountry areas of Virginia and the Carolinas after 1750. Attracted by inexpensive land, Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Separate Baptists from the northern...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...United States free of debt, Francisco decided not to pay a coyote (or a "pollero" as some border crossers call them) to help him get from Santa Cruz, Guatemala to...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...first months of the Atlanta Campaign. Albumen print. Much depended on how Confederate armies fared in Virginia and Georgia. Because the Confederate and Union forces in Virginia were bogged down...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
Introduction At high noon, Nashville time, on Monday, May 17, 1954, all nine justices of the United States Supreme Court in Washington joined in a declaration that legally-sanctioned racial segregation...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...a captured copy of the 1915 Plan de San Diego revealed Carranza adherents' intent to use a series of violent uprisings to regain territory in the old Spanish Southwest (Texas,...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...reasons ranging from debt crisis and peso devaluation in Mexico to civil unrest in parts of South America, from cooling economies and growing anti-immigrant sentiment in Texas and California to...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...Salt Lake City, UT; San Francisco, CA; San Jose, CA; Santa Fe, NM; Seattle, WA; Tampa, FL; West Palm Beach, FL; and Wilton Manors, FL, have issued bans. Finally, the...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...line, a significant number for such a rural area. The ultra-conservative Crawfordites sought to continue most practices “as in the time of Uncle Reuben.” Since their formation in the 1870s,...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...is a poet and professor of English at the University of California–Santa Barbara. Huang is the author of many books and translations, including the bestselling Charlie Chan: The Untold Story...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...California, January 26, 2012. Photograph by Flickr user Mikey Walley. Courtesy of Mikey Wally, Creative Commons License CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0. New Orleans rap is everywhere and nowhere. Lil Wayne reigns as...