Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...construed, encourage critical thinking for the betterment of civic society. HyperCities leaves specific tensions between the roots of these digital technologies and their adoption by humanities-driven scholars under-explored. Aside from briefly...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...to a physical and legal battle between managers, workers, and Progressive reformers.1"The Story of a Yellow Pine Sextet," American Lumberman 73 (March 5, 1904), 43; "Women Will Help in War...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...have been leading an initiative to build a larger memorial at the Freedom Riders site. But official reluctance to honor the Freedom Riders has often blocked action. In denying Georgia...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...crossing the Ohio River to the North. The Ohio River was the border between the free states of the north and slavery states of the south. Even after crossing the...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...the South at between 10 and 12 percent in 1860, although the product of mixed-race unions constituted more significant proportions of city dwellers: 39 percent of free blacks and 20...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...to the height of German immigration to the United States, writers would provide scientific evidence that explain earlier observations and explore the presumed relationship between southern climates and German bodies...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...high-wage jobs and ensure prosperity and economic security for all people of the United States. To invest in the infrastructure and industry of the United States to sustainably meet the...
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....
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...infrastructure to prevent the immigrants from coming into the United States. I don't want to imagine the United States investing in technology would kill off any human being who even...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...1724 Code Noir. Aubert describes the law, which prescribed "inherent differences between white and black Catholics" (42), as "the most racially exclusive colonial law in the French Empire" (23). Other...