The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...landscape. He considered Virginia's Eastern Shore "decidedly Deep Southern." Its landscape, structures, and their spatial arrangements made the region more like Georgia or Tidewater Virginia than Pennsylvania or even its...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...escaped into the woods, and eventually notified federal authorities. The men accused labor manager Harlan and his foremen of using the forested landscape to entrap laborers and conceal debt peonage...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...made both English (the imported language) and Spanish the island's official languages.12Helen M. Strauch, "The Compelling Influence of Nonlinguistic Aims in Language Status Policy Planning in Puerto Rico," Working Papers...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...workers in Margilan spend hot summer afternoons and cold winter mornings weaving on Carolina looms. Margilan Weavers and Carolina Looms Mary E. Frederickson, Draper automatic loom, Margilan, Uzbekistan, 2006. Looms...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...into the digital age by reissuing the double LP set in a compact disc format.32Alan and John A. Lomax: Cajun and Creole Music, 1934/1937 (Rounder Records 11661-1842-2, 1999); Alan and John...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...Robert S. Davis, Jr., The 1833 Land Lottery of Georgia and Other Missing Names of Winners in the Georgia Land Lotteries (Greenville, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1991). In December 1833,...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...number slightly above the percentage of the Asian school-age population. Only white students and students with Asian ancestries were in private schools in numbers that exceeded or generally matched their...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...on reading the landscape, see Richard Muir, Approaches to Landscape (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1999) and The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes. See William G. Thomas III, "The Countryside Transformed."...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...of Texas at Austin. Austin's 1928 city plan imagined an urban space integrated with pastoral landscapes, the pristine University of Texas campus, and the state capitol grounds. Planners strongly discouraged...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...the Meaning of 'Neighbourhood,'" 2013. Ghaziani's There Goes the Gayborhood? briefly mentions cruising, framing it as an activity that could occur in any number of venues in the urban landscape.23Ghaziani,...