A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...African Americans, such as southwest Atlanta.10For a rich discussion of the development and growth of these neighborhoods on the western, southwestern, and southern edges of the city of Atlanta from...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...increase from forty-four to sixty-seven the number of post offices in Accomack and Northampton counties. The advent of the railroad in 1884 further stimulated the establishment of post offices both...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...numbers, vetting projects, and trading horses in an effort that to longtime observers must have seemed a fool's errand. Competition, not collaboration, had long characterized metropolitan relationships and it wasn't...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...This market created staggering obstacles: enslaved marriages had endured the large-scale transport of people from the Virginia Piedmont and Tidewater to the antebellum Southwest, as well as significant but more...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...fifteen or sixteen years old, but most were in their late teens or early twenties. There were several mother-daughter pairs in the mill, and a number of the women working...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...of a combination of white flight, continued occupational mobility for white women, and increasing black migration from farms to towns in Scott County. With the exception of B.C. Rogers Poultry,...
Cajun South Louisiana
...Map Collection, University of Texas. While many people associate the southwest Louisiana home of the Cajuns with swamplands, its environment also consists of marshes, prairies, and wooded river areas. The...
Religion and the US South
...South was the movement of increasing numbers of settlers into backcountry areas of Virginia and the Carolinas after 1750. Attracted by inexpensive land, Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Separate Baptists from the northern...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...this map, click here. At the most distant zoom level, only Stevens mills with significant union action are labeled. The larger the marker the greater the number of employees and...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...named Rose, valued at $700. The full listing reads: Slave Cicero 1,000, slave Sophia 300, slave Jane 400 Slave Jack 800, slave Rose 700, slave David 800, old woman 100...