Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...for two calls, and at each call it is blown four times. The first call is for everyone to prepare for the service. The second call is for the starting...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...an Emory dissertation, submitted in 1997. I had these really superb advisers: Mary Odem, Catherine Nickerson, and, of course, Allen Tullos was chair of my committee. Martin Duberman was an...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...number of reported tornadoes in the state each year is twenty-five, with sixty-two the highest number reported in a single year, and five the fewest. The average number of tornado-related...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...or impose "artificial limitations" on who we can be. You arrive and park. You are told you will not be able to move your car until you leave the island;...
Palomares Bajo
...Pictorial Cultures and Political Iconographies: Approaches, Perspectives, Case Studies from Europe and America, edited by Udo J. Hebel and Christoph Wagner (Berlin: DeGruyter, 2011), 316. Through my own camera lens,...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...their own critical readings of the history and culture of downtown Los Angeles, calling attention to the incongruities of that space. Screenshot of HyperCities Earth site with 1940 map of...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...hero carried all the former slave states but only a single northern state, New Jersey, in his presidential lost cause.67Charles W. Calhoun, From the Bloody Shirt to Full Dinner Pail:...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...is assistant professor of history at Emory University, a former award-winning health columnist for the Los Angeles Times, and the author of Vaccine Nation: America's Changing Relationship with Immunization (University...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...end helped ensure that cars traveled at near full capacity during their entire route, rather than departing and arriving at the end station with no passengers. Also, because many of...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...about immigration policy. One woman in Cary, North Carolina, who had never done anything like this before, gave me a check for two thousand dollars to carry to Don Candelario....