An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...you in Vietnam? GAUTREAUX: I was going to join the Air Force, but they had that draft lottery, and I drew number 361. Number one went, and the further away...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...many records have simply not survived into the present. This book accounts for small numbers (fewer than thirty). However, all told, there were an additional forty-two Indian children living in...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...veneer of metropolitan statistics, segregation by race and class remains a persistent feature of metropolitan life. Clayton County even earned the unhappy distinction of having the single highest rates of...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...William D. Teney was purchasing his wife Matilda and daughter Ann, likely with the intention of manumitting them, but that he died prior to registering any deed of manumission. It fell...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...University of Nebraska Press, 2006), chapter 1; Lowell Gudmundson and Justin Wolfe, eds., Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between Race and Place (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010); Hebe...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...named Rose, valued at $700. The full listing reads: Slave Cicero 1,000, slave Sophia 300, slave Jane 400 Slave Jack 800, slave Rose 700, slave David 800, old woman 100...
The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks
...single mother who sold timeshare condominiums on Lake Hamilton near her hometown of Hot Springs in central Arkansas. Over the next few years, her informal end-of-life care expanded into daily...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...an area park located south of downtown Atlanta. (Clipping from the Atlanta Constitution, April 25, 1896.) Although these venues offered numerous open-air attractions, privately-owned parks were enclosed by fences and other...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...exploitation. Appalachia now finds itself in the precarious position where the defining features of the region, the mountains, face destruction for the coal within and underneath. There are few alternative...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
Review The defeat of the Confederacy, the prospect of military occupation and Republican state government, and the financial collapse of many plantations and businesses sent a number of white southerners...