Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...of darkened cars.5"Drive-in theater," Wikipedia; "Interactive Statistics," Drive-ins.com, http://www.drive-ins.com/stats.htm. The drive-in's popularity was short-lived. By the 1960s, their numbers began to decline. In the 1970s, many fell victim to suburbanization....
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...haven't heard of any trouble so far, though. Percentage-wise it seems to me this area has fully as many gay folk as any area in any of the larger cities...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Grogan and Tony Proscio, Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival (New York: Basic Books, 2000). Local development initiatives for producing and marketing agricultural products, enhancing distribution infrastructure, recruiting...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...of my life in which I became aware of the coal industry and of strip mining, partly because we could see strip mining from our house, and my dad talked...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...Yankee capture of Atlanta electrified the North, and, more than any other event on or off the battlefield, it turned around Lincoln's political fortunes.4James M. McPherson, "Two Strategies of Victory:...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...Tony, MC A.D.E., Clay D., The Gucci Crew, and veteran DJ and producer Pretty Tony. Female artists like Missy Mist, Debbie Deb, and Candy Fresh were among the artists who...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Compulsory Association" by Any or Many Means Six other states—Mississippi, Louisiana, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia—also created strategy groups to block school desegregation. Each group had its own...
Besieged Terrain
...destroyed many of the remaining younger trees, scoured the land, and led to widespread erosion. By 1922 the company had clear-cut a twenty-three square mile area. Because the land was...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...marched in with his Oglethorpe County infantry company, increasing the number of soldiers to 155 men. With removal just two days away, the privates in Means's company must have been...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
Review Christopher J. Manganiello opens Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region with a discussion of the drought that hit the...