Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...masiva de los mayas, sus luchas para adaptarse a nuevos lugares de vida y de trabajo, y los efectos de la migración en sus familias y comunidades en su lugar...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...from arsenic, a highly toxic substance, Salvarsan was a frightening remedy. While more effective than mercury, its use was accompanied by a panoply of side effects—from the mild (dermatitis, gastro-intestinal...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...her rural community outside of Claxton, Georgia, was causing grave harm, and that she and her neighbors had a right to be spared its effects. She described her own sensitivity...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...a wishing well installed in an attempt to remove the "slave market" stigma. Benches and chairs offer shade. Local belief held that visitors who drank from the fountain were destined...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...way through central cities, tended to disrupt largely black areas, displacing families and disrupting communities" (112). In the wake of massive demolition of public housing, tenants initiated efforts to preserve...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...provision of better educational opportunities for their children, the adoption of up-to-date styles of architecture, the installation of indoor plumbing, and the purchase of automobiles, pianos, and other amenities. In...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...status, a jealous protector of his own archival materials related to their shared work for the WPA, and also a spectacularly harsh critic of Hurston's contradictory persona. See, for instance,...
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...as the history of slave labor in the construction of American universities and the Smithsonian; a review of artist Kara Walker's "Blood Sugar" installation; and a video presentation about how...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...applications of the term see, Robbie Ethridge and Sheri M. Shuck-Hall, eds., Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South (Lincoln: University...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...those who had been the chief actors in it. The belief, however, continued in the minds of some, that Mr. Richardson had died by other hands than his own. Howe,...