CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
Commentary Multiple COVID-19 waves have left in their wake compelling evidence of long overlooked gaps in pandemic readiness and responsiveness. The primary lesson for the US public health and healthcare...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...Brickner, October 12, 1961, box 5, folder 8, Rothschild Papers, 1933–1985, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta. Rothschild was active in a number of liberal organizations, including...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...live below the poverty level, a number almost double the US average. When compared to other southern cities, the Memphis poverty rate of 23.5 percent is the same as Atlanta's...
The Carolina Piedmont
...significant numbers. Enslaved African Americans made up ten percent of the Carolina Piedmont's population in the 1760s. By 1800, only two or three counties had black populations of more than...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
Review When Hernando de Soto's army of six hundred soldiers reached the middle Savannah River in 1540, arriving in what is today South Carolina and Georgia, they likely thought they...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
Review Understanding the creation of social spaces in an unfamiliar landscape is, according to Robert Paulett, a productive way to account for eighteenth-century developments in the American Southeast, particularly in...
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...
Good-Bye to All That?
...the number of challengers in 2016 is likely to decline even further. Our neighboring South Carolina offers a window into the future. In this most recent election less than 25...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...in Washington, DC, Mildred and Richard decide, in violation of state law, to move back to Virginia with their three young children. They find a farmhouse. It has no telephone...
Palomares Bajo
...flights, so costly to the American and European South. And North. For the contaminated Danish ice and water were also shipped across the Atlantic to Charleston, then sent up the...