The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
Review In the years surrounding the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) decision, state legislatures as well as county and municipal governments in the US South hastily built new "colored"...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...Solomon, 2018. Courtesy of the Don Kelly Collection, Cushing Memorial Library & Archives, Texas A&M University. From the masked jester of the Mattachine Society to a cover of the Daughters...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...of personality are lost. Some individuals become pugnacious, while others fall into a state of reverie. After small doses there is a great tendency to causeless merriment. Although less certain...
The Shenandoah Valley
...Great Valley extends beyond Virginia into Maryland and Pennsylvania, bordered continuously by the Alleghany and Cumberland Mountains to the west and the Blue Ridge and South Mountains on the east....
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...Continent (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006). A deeper engagement with the extensive enthnohistorical literature on native experiences in Louisiana would have enhanced the volume's appeal to early Americanists. Despite...
The Bulletin—August 21, 2012
...cases have been reported from Texas (as illustrated in this map). The severity of the outbreak in and around Dallas, Texas has prompted the city to declare a state of...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...Life in the Katrina Diaspora, ed. Lynn Weber and Lori Peek (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012), 79–103. Thank you to the University of Texas Press for permission to publish...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...State, 1540 to 1988 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990). From the colonial era through most of the twentieth century, much of the Maya population lived in the Guatemala highlands...
Palomares Bajo
...boon to struggling economies. Accidents in Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas had been mercifully free of thermonuclear explosions—and, it seems, of significant radioactive contamination. In this...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...Suite in the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas, Texas, and traveled frequently. After John’s death in 1950, Mary Kate and her sister Rosa continued to travel, accompanied by their nieces. Whole...