Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...part of a social project that encouraged political participation? What if citizens possessed use-rights over a sustaining landscape? Historians don't often write legislation. My attempt is consistent with the argument...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...city jurisdictions may vary in the degree to which race dominates law and custom. This research guide focuses on an urban landscape in the South, where a particular set of...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...as forty anti-Semitic groups operating in the South at the time of the black freedom struggle. Some of these organizations promoted their cause exclusively through propaganda. Others took more direct...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...dirt track racers defying death in stripped-down vehicles with high performance engines, the glitz and product promotion of modern day NASCAR, and the window-tinted, stretch-limo world of rap culture. Country...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...and Spanish colonialism. The Tremé developed around Congo Square as one of the first neighborhoods of free people of color in the United States in the late eighteenth century.1For more...
The Liminal Site
...we are renters. In front of our home extends a suburban landscape of half–century-old houses. There is not a front porch in my entire neighborhood; whether despite or because of...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...textbooks. But nearly every major US newspaper covered the events of March 1931 in northeast Alabama. The news of successive Scottsboro trials reverberated globally, prompting demonstrations from Cape Town to...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...a growing interest not just in maintaining existing theaters, but in constructing new ones.7"Drive-in Theater Search," Drive-ins.com, http://drive-ins.com/srchdest.htm?name=&city=&code=al&status_op=open&search.x=13&search.y=12. Six of Alabama's ten drive-ins opened since 1996.8Calvin R. Trice, "Couple seek...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...workers find the landscape shifting beneath their feet overnight, nor a tragic triumph over nature. Instead, Theriot focuses on how the fluid landscape afforded and constrained different kinds of innovations,...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...status of the academic earthly paradise is especially pronounced one mile from campus in the Oxford Historic Cemetery. Here are buried hundreds of persons, slave and free, closely connected with...