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...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...because it was unusual to me. I'd never seen any place like it in Florida. In 2004 I started a new photographic project called Primitive Florida. I felt that I...
The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks
...AIDS Victims,” THV 11, October 26, 2023, https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/arkansas-files-cemetery-aids-restoration/91-39e9dad1-7ece-4244-b854-4e1d2091c5bc. A June 2024 YouTube video podcast, RUTHLESS: The Real Story Behind the ‘Cemetery Angel of Arkansas’ alleges to uncover the “scam” perpetrated...
Imprinting This Place: Rob Amberg's Documentary Journey
...warned. Back in 1974, when Amberg was a newcomer to the Appalachian mountains and drove past the structure often, its “fundamentalist and apocalyptic tone” made him “wonder if [he’d] chosen...
Ashé: Cultural Arts Cornerstone in New Orleans’ Central City
...for 20 years,” New Orleans Tribune, January 24, 2018. Carol Bebelle and Douglas Redd. Undated photo courtesy of Ashé Cultural Arts Center. Born in New Orleans and raised in Baton...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...Bourbon Street, New Orleans, Louisiana. Photograph by Flickr user Kris Krüg. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Campanella celebrates the "ethnic white working class of downtown New Orleans," whom he...
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...
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...
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...
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,...