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Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts

Blog Post I recently bought a crumbling old house in a historically gay neighborhood in Roanoke, Virginia. I met my ex-lover in this house five years ago. At the time...

Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head

Introduction: Series Editor's Note Martin Padgett's A Night at the Sweet Gum Head explores a cast of historical actors who shaped modern LGBTQ+ politics and culture in 1970s Atlanta, Georgia....

Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"

Through all the sorrow of the Sorrow Songs there breathes a hope—a faith in the ultimate justice of things. The minor cadences of despair change often to triumph and calm...

Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta

Essay Map of global ecoregions. Courtesy of World Wildlife Fund. Environmental history emphasizes the role of humans as an integral part of their natural surroundings. Ecological systems and biological diversity,...

Mississippi Delta

Essay Mississippi Delta region. Map by Stacey Martin, 2006. Sociologist Rupert Vance wrote in the 1930s of the "cotton obsessed, Negro obsessed" Mississippi Delta as "the deepest South." A half...

Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives

In this short book, distinguished political scientist Adolph L. Reed, Jr. offers remembrances from his early life below the Mason-Dixon line as a member of the last African American generation...

COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance

Commentary An online search using the keywords "COVID-19" and "lessons" turns up an astonishing volume and assortment of information: thousands of commentaries, news stories, scholarly articles, book chapters, and monographs. The...

Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation

The Battle of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, 1886. Cyclorama painting by the American Panorama Company, photographed by Michael Page, Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. Click/tap and drag to navigate within the...

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