Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...1970s, at once geographical, ideological, and social. This group was in many ways remarkably similar to lesbian-feminist communities in other parts of the United States; its emergence can be traced...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...of the Year," reprinted from the Atlanta (GA) Journal in the Sun (New York, NY), Oct. 28, 1888, 5, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1888-10-28/ed-1/seq-5/. This "country animal has been a part of the south...
"Aint that Something?"
...Gurney Norman's Kinfolks. Dawn's world is difficult, but not hopeless or humorless. The characters in Trampoline may be Appalachian, but that doesn't mean they fit neatly into any particular mold....
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...Water quality intersects with social structures, though not in any simple or straightforward way. The words and conventions we use to describe natural beauty fill in few gaps, nor do...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...of the least violent acts many of these white men enacted in any given week. Black men, women, and children, as well as many Native people, had long been held...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...our people along the river bank, reminding them that nothing was sacred. Any bond of family, any tie of love, could be broken in a moment. That's what white power...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...HistoryMiami Museum. Courtesy of HistoryMiami Museum. Queer histories have historically been rooted and entangled with—in nuanced and checkered ways—anti-Black violence. I'm more inclined to think of it this way: Florida...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...Barton spoke for many when he commented, "That first day and for many thereafter, we did not understand what the mark meant. In fact, I am not sure that I...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...say there are five thousand Creek speakers left, but nobody seems to know where that number comes from, and many suggest there are only a few hundred speakers, some even far fewer....