The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...the areas had been designated as official floodways for the storage of excess flows" (78). The chapters on 1965's Hurricane Betsy and the Flood of 1993 illuminate events and cases...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...Yet, while Atlanta has no official memorial to commemorate the struggles of the LGBT population in the wake of the AIDS pandemic, the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library (MARBL)...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...by filming the exterior of Foster, not only broken doors and windows, but the structure's physical beauty. In an effort to tell the story of a powerful place, a site...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...to Anne Mitchell Whisnant, author of Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History, and the scholarly advisor for the website Driving Through Time, "Since 1946, the Blue Ridge Parkway has...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...2010, Oakland, CA), https://mki.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1100/2014/10/Petty_GSA-2010_Panorama.pdf. Today, among all Civil War battle panoramas, the Gettysburg and Atlanta cyclorama paintings are the only survivors on public display, each showcased in a twenty-first-century exhibition...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...ask for the death penalty? Because they knew that no white jury would send the defendants to their deaths. They argued the case with the very opposite of indifference, with...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...diverse range of wealth, education, and influence, during the age of Jacksonian democracy” (11). He characterizes the early singing schools and conventions less as sites of cultural preservation than events...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...and pleasures of life as they are uniquely presented by a particular site, and evolving ways to ensure long-term occupancy of that site."3Ibid., 217. I see now, thirty years later,...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...Atlanta. As Atlanta's black population grew in the 1950s and 1960s, city officials became concerned about "the prospect of a Negro majority in the city."1In May 1966, "the Atlanta Journal...
Editorial Style Guide
...are given, or when a specific day with a year is specified. In September 2014, Southern Spaces began redesigning the site. On Halloween 2004 they visited the Oakland Cemetery. Examples:...