Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...(New York: Harper and Row, 1979), 196–218; Jen Jack Gieseking, "Queering the Meaning of 'Neighbourhood': Reinterpreting the Lesbian-Queer Experience of Park Slope, Brooklyn, 1983–2008," in Queer Presences and Absences, eds....
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...from the stone quarries. —Zbigniew Herbert, "Classic."1Zbigniew Herbert, Collected Poems, 1956–1968 (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), 141. Thanks to Allen Tullos for suggesting this apt quote. Carol M. Highsmith, Smithsonian Institution...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...In the case of the “revival spiritual songs” that began to appear in great numbers in 1840s tunebooks, including The Sacred Harp, Steel speculates that some may have had their...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
.... . that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events . . . The Almighty...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Flor, 1989 [1980]) and Blacks and Whites in São Paulo, Brazil, 1888–1988 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990), 54–89; Dain Borges, "'Puffy, Ugly, Slothful, and Inert': Degeneration in Brazilian Thought,...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...grandmother Jane Tinney born April 4, 1816, died July 9, 1897 Our brother Edward Tinney, born Nov 24, 1871, died Feb 14 1892 Our brother Godfrey Tinney born Sept 5,...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...the Presbyterian Church in South Carolina, 2 vols. (Columbia, SC: Duffie and Chapman, 1870–73), 1:418–19. Map of South Carolina Waxhaws region, 2012. Map shows location of Waxhaw Presbyterian Church in...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
Photograph of Rosa, Miguel and their son. Global Lives, Local Struggles (Documentary footage used in this essay was provided by William Brown, Director, Living Across Borders.) Part 2: Dr. Odem describes...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...one unified (though still largely segregated) school system with about 85,000 students (79% white, 22% black, 1% "other"). 1969: Twelve years into desegregation, Nashville’s public schools have failed to eliminate...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...the United States, 1848–1928 (London: Oxford University Press, 2017); David Montejano, Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836–1986 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987); and Nicholas Villanueva Jr.,...