Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...1849. Vague and clumsy references to letters in code and cyphers in his correspondence directed to Barrett made his situation look damning. One newspaper from North Carolina noted that if it...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...a growing interest not just in maintaining existing theaters, but in constructing new ones.7"Drive-in Theater Search," Drive-ins.com, http://drive-ins.com/srchdest.htm?name=&city=&code=al&status_op=open&search.x=13&search.y=12. Six of Alabama's ten drive-ins opened since 1996.8Calvin R. Trice, "Couple seek...
Ashé: Cultural Arts Cornerstone in New Orleans’ Central City
...The two transformed this raw space into the Ashé Cultural Arts Center to promote, celebrate, and produce works by and about the African and African American experience. Ashé Cultural Arts...
Trouble the Land: Atlanta Student Movement
...cards. And we put them in safety deposit boxes at Rich's. Our slogan was, "Close down your account with segregation. Open up your account with freedom. Send us your charge...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...up the C & O Canal from the capital city. After extensive field research and laboratory tests on local stone deposits, geologist David Dale Owen, brother of Congressman Robert Dale...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...hardwood forests of the pre-Columbian Delta were supported by the floodplain of the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers. The soils of the forests were of alluvial origin, derived from the deposits...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...extraction and removal as trucks haul mined coal from mountaintop sites and deposit it on rail cars and barges leaving the region. The proximity of these operations to waterways highlights...
The Black Belt
...photographs from 1914 US Geological Survey “Cretaceous Deposits of the Eastern Gulf Region,” Selma, Alabama, ca. 1914. Image uploaded by Flickr user Internet Archive Book Images. Image is in the...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
Introduction Virginia Ward's yearbook photo, Pebblebrook High School, 1970. Virginia Ward is not a small woman, but the fineness of her hands and the way her gray curls sweep around...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...project, along with their accompanying video files, are deposited in the Loyola Archives and Special Collections, to be made available to scholars online through the LOUISiana Digital Library. Additionally, student...