Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...alphabet agencies, brought forth the American Guide Series. Its roughly 400 volumes encompassed every state as well as the territories of Alaska and Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia....
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
Appendix I: Background on the Family of Francis Tinney Charles Teney manumitted Francis's father William Don Otius Teney on November 15, 1827, along with William's siblings Ann and Andrew and their...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...disease outbreaks such as COVID-19. Bangladesh's health services are centralized and urban-centric.1There are only 1.1 doctors per 10,000 people in rural populations in Bangladesh, while there are 18.2 doctors per...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...in voting laws. In 1972, Texas, Arizona, Alaska, and a few local jurisdictions in five other states were added due to more recent voting rights problems.1For more information about covered...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...have ground the cockroach into oblivion, had it shown up during one of her childhood church services on back porches and in farm wagons, but, having known her for many years,...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...Lithonia, Georgia, October 23, 2003. VIPs sign cement during the foundation pouring ceremony at South DeKalb Medical Center for the first full-service hospital in south DeKalb. Photograph by HIP Incorporated...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...Service and New Deal agencies such as the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and Works Progress Administration (WPA). Typically, federal agencies acquired the land (through purchase or donation) and federal workers...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...and the War of 1812 as payment for their military service. Ozark homesteaders of the nineteenth century were predominantly Scots-Irish, accustomed to living on the frontier, in close contact with Native...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
Introduction Many of the novels that we call plantation romances also bear a different name: we know them and see them discussed as "Anti-Tom novels," written implicitly or explicitly to...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...Orleans branch, and by fall, MCC services were relocated to the Lounge.22Fieseler, Tinderbox, 25, 31–32. Over the year that the Lounge hosted MCC services, congregants became accustomed to continuing "fellowship"...