Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...As the United States aggressively pushed into Indian territories east of the Mississippi River between 1790 and 1830, a wide range of governing elites declared the importance of assimilating Indian...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...Butler visited the plantations infrequently, he depended on overseers like Roswell King, Sr., and his son Roswell, Jr., for daily management. Between them, the two Kings managed the Butler plantations...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...in at least one corner of the South.105Historian Michael Willrich makes a similar argument about Progressive Era anti-vaccinationists in Michael Willrich, Pox: An American History (New York: Penguin Press, 2011)....
Love and Death in Mississippi
...LGBTQ individuals, and despite numerous legal challenges and actions by states and cities banning official publicly funded travel to Mississippi, the law remains in effect.1The states banning publicly funded travel...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...debates over authenticity between critics and aficionados, and touts the recovery following Hurricane Katrina. Bourbon Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1977. Photograph by Derzi Elekes Andor. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...lasted between forty-five minutes and two hours and were conducted between May 2007 and September 2008.10Trained graduate-student research assistants and I conducted the interviews, and participants provided informed consent beforehand....
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...risk. Jim Crow made for a volatile situation. Separation and exclusion in neighborhoods, schools, and public accommodations did not eliminate the potential for conflict between the races in the street...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...rice planters for a slave-based plantation economy. Jennison unpacks Georgia's slave codes from 1755, 1765, and 1770 to demonstrate how a Savannah-based, Lowcountry elite eventually seized power. Jennison cautions, however,...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...to prevent blacks from voting for Democrats."71Charles Postel, The Populist Vision (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 196. Historian C. Vann Woodward points out the high degree of election fraud,...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...is extensive. Major works include Daniel Joseph Singal, The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982); Michael O'Brien, The Idea of the...