Changing Places, Changing Lives
...worker experiences (12–13). Hatcher, Chas. F. Slave Depot advertisement, New Orleans, ca. 1861. Advertisement originally published in Gardner's New Orleans Directory for 1861 (Gardner, 1861). Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...and Clive Webb, Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848–1928 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). In particular, he examines Anglo attacks against Mexicans in the...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...efforts to trace the counter-narrative's lineage. Celebration of Emancipation Day, Charleston, South Carolina, January 8, 1877. Sketch by Harry Ogden. Originally published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, February 3, 1877....
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...loosely interconnected vignettes depicting a day in the life of Austin, Texas, where Linklater still lives. Morning turns to night and then to a new day, and for all we've...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...He also spoke out against the war in Vietnam and kept up a rigorous schedule of promoting SCLC’s work and garnering new supporters. Financial problems and internal tensions ultimately led...
A Mess of Poke
...Adams, Sauteeing poke in bacon grease, Decatur, Georgia, 2010. Allison O. Adams, Poke scrambled with eggs, Decatur, Georgia, 2010. After the last boiling, I noted that the greens were beginning...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...that “contributed to ‘breaking the bonds of custom, offering new experiences, calling out new institutions and activities’” (11, quoting Turner, 1920). The backdrop to The Sacred Harp’s emergence is not...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...not Gone?” Northwestern Institute for Policy Research, accessed October 23, 2017. http://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/about/news/2014/IPR-research-Great-Recession-unemployment-foreclosures-safety-net-fertility-public-opinion.html. Foreclosures and underwater mortgages decimated real estate markets from Los Angeles to Orlando. Housing starts evaporated. Underfunded and...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...reprint ed. (New York: Bloomsbury, 2014). I had met Thomas in New Orleans for the first time a few weeks before the ceremony. I had asked her then what slavery...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
Review Sensory history is an exciting new approach to writing history. It offers a fresh take on past perceptions. Sensing between the lines of written sources, the sensory historian recasts...