Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Business," Memphis Business Journal, October 15, 2004, 1, 50. The presence of Federal Express also influenced Northwest Airlines' decision to establish a Memphis hub for passenger flights. For more than...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...social alternative bookstore," Linda remembers envisioning a store with a focus on women's books as well as children's books (Barbara's expertise) and radical theology books.12Linda remembers carrying Charis Clarence Jordan's...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...House Peninsula Enterprise (hereafter cited as PE), November 22, 1884 (first quotation); Orris A. Browne, "The Eastern Shore", American Agriculturist in PE, April 11, 1885; ); A Handbook of Virginia...
Genres of Southern Literature
Introduction Booklover's Map of the United States, 1949. Map by Amy Jones. Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA-3.0. "Southern literature" announces the conjunction...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Book Library, Emory University. View full booklet. Afterwards, the IRS revoked the tax exemptions of more than one hundred private schools and scrutinized applications for tax exemption from others; however,...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...July 1938, clipping in A Southerner Discovers the South scrapbook, Daniels Papers, SHC. Even somewhat critical reviewers like historian Paul Buck valued the book's readability. Although Buck felt Daniels' book lacked "the...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...its restrooms" and faced directly into these facilities. Travelers who sat in these seats had an unavoidable view of "people going in and out the urinals and stalls," and were...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...https://tshaonline.org/handbook*]}*/online/articles/qbf43; Robert Wooster, "Military History," Handbook of Texas, Texas State Historical Association, accessed April 1, 2019, https://tshaonline.org/handbook*]}*/online/articles/qzmtg. While Kelly AFB closed in 2001, the other two bases, along with Ft....
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...of it—Cumberland, Jekyll, St. Simons, Sapelo, and St. Catherines—Ossabaw is a composite island, in which sediments from Pleistocene and Holocene shorelines are directly adjacent or superimposed. However, sediments of the...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...obsessions, throughout his work. But more than that, it gave me the opportunity to see how he changed from book to book. Wrong. Courtesy of The University of Pittsburgh Press....