19 Citations
A Creole melting pot: the politics of language, race, andidentity in southwest Louisiana, 1918-45
- History
- 2016
Southwest Louisiana Creoles underwent great change between World Wars I and II as they confronted American culture, people, and norms. This work examines that cultural transformation, paying…
The world of Broadus Miller: homicide, lynching, and outlawry in early twentieth-century North and South Carolina
- History
- 2016
In the summer of 1927, an African American named Broadus Miller was accused of killing a fifteen-year-old white millworker in Morganton, North Carolina. Following a manhunt lasting nearly two weeks,…
Making the South New, Keeping the South "Southern": Bob Jones, Fundamentalism, and the New South
- History
- 2015
When the Invisible Empire Stormed the Front Range: The Reign of the 1920s Ku Klux Klan in Boulder County, Colorado
- History
- 2015
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS To Claire, friends and family, thank you for putting up with long nights and discussions of Exalted Cyclops and Grand Titans. I could only understate the ways in which you all have…
“An Amorphous Code”: The Ku Klux Klan and Un-Americanism, 1915–1965
- HistoryJournal of American Studies
- 2013
On 1 June 1965, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) announced that it would hold hearings into the Ku Klux Klan, fifty years after the organization had appeared before the House Rules…
Hugo Black’s Wall of Separation of Church and State
- History, Law
- 2012
Justice Hugo Black and his 1947 opinion in Everson v. Board of Education. In this opinion, Justice Black quoted Thomas Jefferson’s term “wall of separation” and further added his own opinion that the…