Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...before."20Jenny Jones, author, Pete Marovich, photographer. "Hull's Drive-In: Preserving a Piece of Americana." American Journal, Issue 9. http://hullsdrivein.com/docs/press/PDF/AmericanJournal.pdf A commercial buyer never came. Instead in June 1999, Eric and Elise...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...achieve the hygienic practices that kept middle-class and wealthy Anglo and Mexican American homes clean and free of disease was lost on these public health officials. Exposing Anglo Americans' privileges...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...the work of journalist Mark Dowie, especially his groundbreaking 1995 book, Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century. Dowie was one of the first vocal critics...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; and Marc Selwyn Gallery, Los Angeles. First image of True Detective's title sequence, 2014, sequence by Antibody and Elastic. © HBO. If you have followed Southern...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...Advertiser, May 19, 1866; Lowell Daily Citizen and News, May 22, 1866; US Statutes at Large, 39th Cong., 1st Sess. (Washington, DC, 1866), 589–90. The illegitimate birth resulted from a...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...Making of Americans in earnest in 1906 to her late-life reflections on war, G.I.s, and the atom bomb. Before the publication of The Autobiography in 1934 propelled her into celebrity...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Illinois, 1825-1870 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978); Eric Foner, ed., The New American History (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997); Patricia Nelson Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West(New...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...Subgroup 2, Series 41, Box 1, Department of Agriculture, Georgia Archives; Hal Allen, "Air War Set in Macon Area on White-Fringed Beetle," Macon Telegraph, July 15, 1946, 1; "Battle against...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...lynched African Americans for alleged offenses that challenged white supremacy, Villanueva argues that Anglos lynched Mexicans to police "citizenship and sovereignty" (5). Although Mexican Americans were "white by law" since...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...Compiled Laws, 1914, of the State of Florida (St. Paul, FL: West, 1915), 2960e. The railroad employees who worked the ticket booths served both windows, but routinely made African American...