"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...History of an American Icon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Misrepresentations of Ozarkers emerge through a lack of cultural relativism and an inability or unwillingness to comprehend traditional Ozark...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...Episcopal burial grounds, consistent with what is registered on Nannie's headstone. An 1863 Civil War draft registration record shows a Black man, William Tenney, evidently Francis's father, residing on the...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...(supported by an award from the Emory provost's office) collaborating with Natasha Trethewey to identify and video-record poets reading and commenting on their poems in the places they write about....
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...of the South conference, Oxford, Mississippi, April 2–3, 2014). New Orleans's famed jazz venue, Preservation Hall, began booking rap and bounce artists for the first time in 2013 with DJ...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...percent of slaves. These were the numbers reported in a society that publicly frowned upon amalgamation of the races. There were certainly more mixed-race offspring than appear in the record.3Robert...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...(New York: Oxford University Press, 2018); David Montejano, Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836–1986 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987). But San Antonio remained a contested colonial...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...counties combined (250,885). The numbers of African American residents in "diversifying" Fayette, northern Fulton, and Gwinnett counties each approximately doubled over the course of the decade; the numbers in Henry...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...with the cost of flights and the initial recovery period in a hotel, it was cheaper to do so there than in the United States. Hearing her story, Ash insisted...
The Shenandoah Valley
The Shenandoah Valley Edward Beyer, Digital Restoration of "Harper's Ferry from Jefferson Rock" from Album of Virginia: Illustrations of the Old Dominion, 1858. The Shenandoah Valley's history marks it as...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...media to collect, preserve, and present the stories and digital record of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media and the University of New...