Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...genres, etc. Radio and television stations and musicians playing live on the radio Material culture relating to musics of the US South and its regions Recording companies and recording studios...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...Lent would not be enacted in 2006, the initial year after the deluge. Beyond the pragmatic realities that Mardi Gras in a badly wounded city would add to local economy...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...of Virginia, Cohabiting Together as Husband and Wife, 1866 Feb. 27 (hereafter Cohabitation Register, Augusta County), 28. Cohabitation Registers Digital Collection, Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA, http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R?func=collections-result&collection_id=1522; U.S. Bureau of...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...loss in additional public health crises. In this commentary, I want to elaborate on how institutionalized ignorance affected the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) response and what can...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...quickly, Northup stumbles upon a group of white men preparing to lynch a few black men. The audience immediately imagines Northup being added to this execution, but he is saved...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...touch with him. So, back to my being in school at UNC. I knew that I wanted to do dissertation research on Guatemala. Luckily, I had an advisor who had...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...very pleasant and very different from one another.... Any one wishing to add a state can add one." By the 1920s, of course, the allegedly vast and supposedly enormously consequential...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...example, a timeline of oil production, entitled "Depths of Addiction," bisects its two pages horizontally, with period pictures of ever-taller drilling rigs arrayed above it. Below, the blue-black of murky...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...of the Ohio, together numbered approximately one hundred thousand troops as they approached the city, but only about twenty-seven thousand of them fought in the Battle of Atlanta.11Woodworth, Nothing But...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...Flickr users Brent Dixon (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0), John Crossley (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0), and halliehh (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). New Urbanism has drawn criticism for reproducing elite landscapes even as it articulates...