Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...entertainment. In 1870, Laurent DeGive opened Atlanta's first opera house, DeGive's Opera House, on Marietta Street. Through the 1880s and 1890s, the opera house catered to a growing cosmopolitan audience...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...copyright violation. The HathiTrust countered that their digitization project is fair use because it is intended to preserve print materials in perpetuity, give access to print-disabled readers as required by the...
The Liminal Site
...our Birmingham house. I have opted, therefore, to continue using the present tense and referring to the place as "our house," especially because we own no other: in North Vancouver,...
White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta
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An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...North Carolina. White Plains Baptist Church, White Plains, North Carolina, November 10, 2007. Photograph by Flickr user Jimmy Emerson, DVM. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Like most family reunions,...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...people listened—at practice spaces and house parties and venues like the 40 Watt. People went to hear their roommate or boyfriend or coworker play one night and urged everyone to...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...recounts how Association members promoted laws and zoning practices that shut down bars and blocked live music, leading to fewer venues for brass bands and other New Orleans musicians. The...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...senado y la cámara controlados por los republicanos y se firmó como ley con el gobernador republicano Sonny Perdue en abril 17 de 2006.25Ibid. William Brown y Mary Odem, Un...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...because you can ruin things for the reader. You can give him a piece of graphic violence that will just overpower the rest of the narrative for him because he...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...authority in religious matters, paid inordinate attention to female reproductive organs as the cause of insanity, and promoted a racialized vision of healthy womanhood that ignored the trauma of abuse....