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...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...the American Scene," and D. W. Meinig, "The Beholding Eye: Ten Versions of the Same Scene." We are interested here in the recent literature on regionalism, modernity, and human geography...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...change their minds.71"Hard Sledding for Bankrupt City," Yearbook of the City Managers' Association 6 (1920): 85–6. In the late 1920s, the city's mayor "[threw] the town wide open" to prostitution,...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...not an American city. It was a Caribbean city. Once you recalibrate, it becomes the best governed, cleanest, most efficient, and best-educated city in the Caribbean. New Orleans is actually...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...launch party down at the old burned-out train station. That first Hub City Anthology led to Hub City Music Makers and Hub City Christmas the next year, and now, twelve...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...commercial center and WSM's Opry protected its spot on network airwaves, the city's output strove to appeal to a diverse national audience. In Knoxville, though, without such broad obligations, regional...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...active components in the oppression of minorities during urbanization. Shadows of a Sunbelt City offers a compelling analysis of the power that universities wield in regional development and their complicity...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974β1980
...At an event in New York City in 1980 celebrating an exhibition of photographs of southern textile workers, Roanoke Rapids weaver Maurine Hedgepeth apologized to Fonda for dissuading her from...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19β20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...into the dynamics connecting American regionalism, antebellum politics, and southern intellectual life. Adam Tate looks at ways in which the regionalism of Augustus Baldwin Longstreet and Johnson Jones Hooper "embodied...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870β1920
...the development of Ponce de Leon from roughly 1870 to 1920 within larger trends in recreation and transportation as both the park and the city of Atlanta strove for regional...