John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
Essay In early 1943, John Yoshida escaped from the American concentration camp at Jerome, Arkansas.1This essay is adapted from John Howard, Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...new forms. We wanted to advance scholarship that used digital media as essential components. We also wanted to differentiate the purpose of this new publication from "Southern Studies" in general,...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...(New York: Routledge, 1993): 467–476. Proximity to specifically queer-centered businesses also enabled many cruising areas, albeit in flexible ways. The policed street scene outside a new bar described by the...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...and a key railroad supply line, amounted to a major defensive victory for the Union forces.1Steven E. Woodworth, Nothing But Victory: The Army of the Tennessee, 1861–1865 (New York: Alfred...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...E. Staub, Voices of Persuasion: Politics of Representation in 1930s America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994); Michael Denning, The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (London and New...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
Introduction During the antebellum era, New Orleans became the second largest port of US immigration after New York City, leading hundreds of thousands of Germans to begin new lives at...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...well into a developing narrative in which the Old and New South were romanticized and welcomed back to a new nationalism, and in which devotion alone made everyone right, and...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...possibilities where new ideas about the disease and its cure emerged, the boundaries between colonial possession and the imperial state blurred, and new medicalized stereotypes about populations were forged, transformed,...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...a fully-fledged movement since we started in 2004. News of our endeavor spread quickly as we hammered, stapled, and stretched chicken wire on our new coop, most of which we...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...of New Hispanic Settlement Patterns in Appalachia,” The Professional Geographer 59, no. 3 (2007): 298-315; Furuseth and Smith, Latinos in the New South; Zúñiga and Hernández-León, New Destinations; Helen Marrow,...