The Place of Appalachia
...epitomized in financial trading, multinational jumble of languages and cultural symbols, or cosmopolitan placelessness described and theorized by observers of global cities.4Saskia Sassen, The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...a hairsbreadth of starvation. Alvin Jewett Johnson, "Johnson's Map of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Delaware and Maryland, 1863," from Johnson's New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas with Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...Depression did more than spur the rise of the modern American regulatory state; it also saw the federal government take some ownership of the country's historical and cultural memory. After...
Writing Appalachia
...media. These forces have virtually obliterated traditional agrarian Appalachia, although an interest in local foods in the region, part and parcel of a larger local foods movement in the United...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...weaving an archaeological and material analysis with sociological theory into a carefully crafted historical narrative. Catawba deerskin map given to colonial govenor Francis Nicholson in 1721. Photograph of original map...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...School.39Barry Malone, "Before Brown: Cultural and Social Capital in a Rural Black School Community, W.E.B. Dubois High School, Wake Forest, North Carolina," The North Carolina Historical Review 85, no. 4...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...a digital Faulkner project. One of its developers is also working on Digital Yoknapatawpha. In terms of the editorial staff, there is interaction with other digital work. Beyond Faulkner, there...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...to the ongoing debate about oil, ecological disaster, and southern Louisiana, while demonstrating the power of visual scholarship and spatial criticism. This debate will continue as Aperture makes Petrochemical America...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...it to use "all lawful means to bring about a reversal" of the Brown decision. Although they did not sanction violence, this defiance of federal authority nonetheless fostered a political...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...They also expanded their geographical range, claiming in one advertisement that "All Florida Is Our Territory." By mid-century they had become the leading commercial photography firm in the state. Burgert...