Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...by hand, using the coding view in Dreamweaver. I tried to code it all in xhtml. As we brought on additional students to help—Sarah Toton, Steve Bransford, Paul O'Grady, Jere...
Religion and the US South
...Protestant hegemony. Roman Catholics have dominated in south Louisiana, dating from sixteenth and seventeenth century French settlement, creating a unique landscape in the South, but Catholics also heavily influenced life...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...came to have the support of the Gay Political Caucus and the Metropolitan Community Church, both organizations invested in promoting the respectability of gay people. Time would prove the MCA's...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...as in journalistic descriptions and cartoons. Perceived ugliness was one attribute that defined black women's deviance from the category 'woman' and justified their imprisonment and assault during the nadir of...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...a barber. He resided in a household that seems to be headed by a woman "J. Tinney," age thirty (born about 1820); a woman "A Tinney," age forty (born about...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...stops and bike lanes and widen streets to promote public transportation. The most symbolic public spot in the corridor is Urdy Plaza, an open, art-decorated space that honors the African...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Flourish in the South," South Today, October 1969, 1. By the 1970s, as many public schools in the South were being desegregated for the first time, promoters of private schools...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...A. West sketches out the evolution of these Calhoun-inspired vigilance committees in From Yeoman to Redneck in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1850–1915 (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008), 53–55. See also...
Looking Back to Move Forward
...Noir' (The Black Code)." National Park Service, (2024, October 2). https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/transcription-of-the-code-noir-the-black-code.htm It was law, but it was also permission. It authorized a way of being that extended beyond itself, embedding...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...Lieutenant General John Bell Hood, commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. Photographic print. Hood's leadership at Chickamauga won him a promotion to lieutenant general on February 11, 1864, and...