Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...budget. Federal promises in the 1890s to develop an elaborate Rural Free Delivery system failed to materialize. Dixie Highway details how Good Roads activism (fueled by a fragile coalition of...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...license plate on my car (I sport a Trout Unlimited tag). And I have sought ways to draw my rural roots closer to my city self. Part of staying connected...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...rural legislators to support vouchers. It also camouflages the severe fiscal impact this scheme will have on routinely underfunded public schools after the special federal funds run out. The states...
The Liminal Site
...to consumption, any more than the pleasure of running is reducible to the pleasure (or hassle) of buying running shoes. And though I have consulted gardening books from the 1940s,...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...whites." Why do Hispanics claim a white racial identity? Rubén Rumbaut highlights the significance of place in the formation of a white racial identity, pointing out that Hispanics were far...
Editorial Style Guide
...appears in running text as a noun. Reserve the abbreviation US when it is used adjectivally. US Supreme Court He is a resident of the United States. States: In running...
Local Color
...the South had race, America’s most visible metaphor of human difference, and one enshrined both in social manners and political practices designed specifically to identify and control "the Different." Southern...
Religion and the US South
...liturgy, theology, and other forms of religious life. Calvinist pessimism about human nature was a crucial progenitor of evangelicalism, giving it a characteristic concern for the inevitability of sinfulness and...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...that "[t]he natural environment figured so importantly in earlier historians' understanding of causation in human affairs" that it was taken for granted. Fields was concurring with environmental historian Jack Temple...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...or self-styled bohemians not only signaled a historical break in New Orleans, it mirrored transformations in modern port cities all over the globe. Ever since humankind began sending bulk goods...