Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...Paul Conlan. Marigny home located near Holy Trinity Catholic Church (closed). © Paul Conlan. New Orleans East New Orleans East (or Eastern New Orleans) was developed near the lakefront on...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...and a bank.61Mariner, Revival's Children, 239-637; Frances Bibbins Latimer, Landmarks: Black Historic Sites on the Eastern Shore of Virginia (Eastville, Va.: Hickory House, forthcoming). For black migration to the Eastern...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...scheduled for clearance or rehab in East Austin; at least 250 of those acres were in central East Austin, a majority African American neighborhood.41"W. W. Collins to J. J. Pickle,"...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...markings, 2007. The location of the code on a building was often an indication of when in the progress of the flood a search had been conducted. A code...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...ground east of the city, where the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library is now located. Sherman surveying the battlefield, in front of the Augustus Hurt House, east of Atlanta, July 22,...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...far been unable to convince Congress to fund such programs directly.4Jane Mayer, "Betsy DeVos, Trump's Big-Donor Education Secretary," New Yorker, November 23, 2016, https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/betsy-devos-trumps-big-donor-education-secretary; Emma Brown, "DeVos Promises 'the Most...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...discussion of 'southernness' sometimes engendered solidarity between southern and northern black youth, it also expressed divisions between these two groups. Within the context of rap, black southern participants often expressed...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...literary-activist tradition in the United States is this tension between what Martinican poet-philosopher Édouard Glissant might call transparency and opacity, the desire for love between two men expressed publicly versus...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...in front of me and the desire to follow intuitive visual impulses. This set up an internal dialog, a debate between conceptual and creative thinking. I walked the line between...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...versatility blurred the boundaries between formal and informal law, between legal experts and ordinary litigants, between courts, the governor's office, and hamlets tucked away in forest thickets in the interior....