"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...the United States, 1848–1928 (London: Oxford University Press, 2017); David Montejano, Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836–1986 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987); and Nicholas Villanueva Jr.,...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...1932, 5; Sept. 8, 1932, 5; Dec. 21, 1933, 6; Feb. 3, 1938, 6; Feb. 17, 1938, 6; March 3, 1938, 5; April 7, 1938, 6; Dec. 13, 1939, 9;...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
Review Max Grivno's subtle and remarkably textured history of labor in northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania, Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason Dixon Line, 1790–1860, details...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...social disorder," to quote Berger.1Martin Berger, Freedom Now! Forgotten Photographs of the Civil Rights Struggle (Berkley: University of California Press, 2013), 10. The images of the time often depicted activists as victims of...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...cannabis extract. "Marajuana Outlawed," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), July 2, 1924, 15; "Bills Signed by Governor Fuqua," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), July 13, 1924, sec. One-B, 5; "Orleans Parish Lawmakers to Tell...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...In the case of the “revival spiritual songs” that began to appear in great numbers in 1840s tunebooks, including The Sacred Harp, Steel speculates that some may have had their...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...the Presbyterian Church in South Carolina, 2 vols. (Columbia, SC: Duffie and Chapman, 1870–73), 1:418–19. Map of South Carolina Waxhaws region, 2012. Map shows location of Waxhaw Presbyterian Church in...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
Photograph of Rosa, Miguel and their son. Global Lives, Local Struggles (Documentary footage used in this essay was provided by William Brown, Director, Living Across Borders.) Part 2: Dr. Odem describes...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...one unified (though still largely segregated) school system with about 85,000 students (79% white, 22% black, 1% "other"). 1969: Twelve years into desegregation, Nashville’s public schools have failed to eliminate...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...political, social, and economic relationships evolved following emancipation. What had been clearly ordered in slavery in an agricultural economy was subverted by freedom in the city. Atlanta is a case...