Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...persistence." Hundreds of scientists have contributed to the development of WWF's Conservation Science Program and identified over 800 distinct terrestrial ecoregions across the globe.1Robert G. Bailey, Description of the Ecoregions...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...whether recognized by civil authorities or not, had taken place and the couple had lived together until enlistment. For the purposes of emancipation in spring 1865, the Senate defined a...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...that housed workers who ferried across the river to work in Columbia's textile mills, until the first bridge was built in 1827. A century of textile production in Columbia ended...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...Perspectives, ed. Paul Quigley and James Hawdon (New York: Routledge, 2019), 217–231. Top, Colonial Theatre Beautiful movie program for The Birth of a Nation, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1915. Featuring filmmaker...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...(Source: "Shooting the Chutes," Atlanta Constitution (April 9, 1896), pg. 10. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, privately-owned amusement parks dotted the American landscape, and by 1920, between...
Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry
...Southern Queer History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999) and Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the House of Jim Crow (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008)....
Editors
...William Falk, University of Maryland Amanda Fickey, Union College James Fickle, University of Memphis Leon Fink, University of Illinois-Chicago Mary Frederickson, Miami University of Ohio Ted Friedman, Georgia State University...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
"I'm tired of these categories." —Patricia Yaeger1Patricia Yaeger, Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing, 1930–1990 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), ix. In a recent New York Times opinion...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...is love." That sermon rapidly degenerates into condemnations of "sins of the flesh," exhortations against the congregants' "own evil ways." Evil! Moby frames shots in which crocheted blankets are folded...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...an unprecedented improvement in public health. Top, Memphis Martyrs historical marker, Memphis, Tennessee, July 4, 2010. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user Thomas R. Machnitzki. Creative Commons license CC BY 3.0....