Sprinkle Creek, North Carolina
...NCDOT aerial marker indicating the highway right-of-way, Sprinkle Creek, NC, 1998. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Looking at I-26 from Dale and Lurethra Fluty’s yard, near the head of Sprinkle...
The Liminal Site
...on his way down—the Piedmont Virginia of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe, all of whom would have been alive as he passed through—looks surprisingly like Birmingham's.4William Faulkner, Absalom,...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...that which would rot away and be lost? Why was I being taught that any security I might ever have would be after I was dead? I was a child,...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...hop production company, Organized Noize, at the heart of this week-long arts celebration: "Organized Noize Productions and the Dungeon Family collective become highly visible examples of the ways [in which]...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...Pettus bridge and march towards Montgomery along US Highway 80 ("Jefferson Davis Highway"). As marchers retreated across the bridge onto Broad Street, four carloads of white possemen pursued the protesters and...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...arts and an elevated expressway down the middle of South Claiborne Avenue. (The plans for the expressway had been drawn up in the 1946 by the legendary master-planner from New...
Deep Ellum Blues
...the period, and not limited to black cemeteries). View of Stringtown, 1947, before the construction of Central Expressway. Central Expressway seemed to enshrine a new social geography as well. It...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...to the Digital Yoknapatawpha Project. The project is still in development so any overview I provide now has to be provisional. The project continues to expand, often in ways that...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...as a way to come to terms with this volatile and disorderly geography (7). As a means to maximize his personal power and the safety of his Florida town, Apalachicole,...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...a Wal-Mart built on a strip mine bench, using each setting to highlight the ways in which commerce and consumption are transforming the mountain landscape. Donald R. Rasmussen says, "The...