Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...the town's industrial capacity and access to natural resources and cheap labor. As Spears notes, Anniston was founded as an experiment during Reconstruction and by the 1880s had been dubbed...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...on to say that Stein's family left Allegheny when she was six months old, and that she has never seen it since—the city itself having ceased to exist, in fact,...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...of bureaucracy did not nest cleanly. While federal initiative may have prompted action, in Virginia, as in a number of other southern states, the cohabitation registrations came about through state...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...spread up and down the city's waterfront with every advance in waterborne transportation. The city's explosive growth in the 1820s and 1830s followed the introduction of riverine steam power, while...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
Essay Canal Street, Separating the Old from the New City, from the WPA Guide to New Orleans. Reminders of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal are hard to miss in many American...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...known musician in Talbot County. He recalled the many times he walked away with prizes offered at the theater in nearby Junction City. 'I was rough then,' he said. 'I...
Genres of Southern Literature
Introduction Booklover's Map of the United States, 1949. Map by Amy Jones. Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA-3.0. "Southern literature" announces the conjunction...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...made a career of heralding the significance of the city's cultural and historic neighborhoods. In Bourbon Street, he turns his attention to the city's most iconic thoroughfare and its development...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...be the first president of African descent, and in doing so eradicated racism forever." Nominating himself as Secretary of Postracial Affairs, Whitehead promised to reimagine a number of pre-postracial cultural...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...this map, click here. At the most distant zoom level, only Stevens mills with significant union action are labeled. The larger the marker the greater the number of employees and...