Bodies and Souls
...located in Coahoma County, Mississippi. Created by Wikimedia Commons user Arkyan. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 3.0. After making Waking in Mississippi, I moved to Boston where I spent four years...
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
...Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World, and many other books. For his work, he has received the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, the American...
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...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...a time of heady optimism. Many believed anything was possible, even progress. The movement had its most visible roots in New York and San Francisco, but after it flared in...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...published in Bernard Romans's A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida (New York: Bernard Romans, 1775). Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, lccn.loc.gov/2004673312. The...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...had one child in every ten in extreme poverty. New Mexico with 11 percent was the only non-Southern state with the nation's highest rates of extreme child poverty. The Southern...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...used in the production of newspapers."8Ibid. Main entrance Gallery 72, Atlanta, Georgia, September 19, 2014. Photograph by Flickr user Burnaway. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. For Sipp, the building’s history...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...that will add new tensions and pose even more communication problems, but it can also make the field more dynamic and relevant to the region. Lower Price Hill Mural, Cincinnati,...
"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...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940–1980 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); John Dittmer, Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995)....