Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...in the Lower 9th Ward following Hurricane Katrina" (FEMA Caption). Structures marked with KEN were specifically searched for bodies by Kenyon International Emergency Services, a Texas company that provided mobile...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...Harbor, just south of the city's previously moribund but now skyrocketing downtown. As one journeys southwest, going upstream, the creek services a working port (properties now eyed for luxury housing)....
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
Review From colonial founders' initial resistance to slavery to antebellum whites' embrace of it, Watson W. Jennison's Cultivating Race charts the first hundred years of Georgia's Anglo, African, and Native American...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...1916. Photograph by Bain News Service. Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection [LC-B2-650-15], loc.gov/pictures/item/2014683112/. Markets for the opossum expanded to northern cities in...
The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. On Thursday, the New Orleans Times-Picayune announced that it "will significantly increase its online news-gathering efforts 24 hours a day, seven days...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...people, and ugly structures, all lumped together as blight. Urban boutique replaces existing stores and services that cater to poorer consumers—which encourages them to move.22For a recent analysis of "boutiquing"...
August, 1959: Morning Service
Beside the open window on the cemetery side, I drowsed as Preacher Lusk gripped his Bible like a bat snagged from the pentecostal gloom. In that room where heat clabbered...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...presence of endemic yellow fever was sufficient to designate a place as tropical and, therefore, ungesund. Following his service as a Prussian artillery lieutenant in the Napoleonic Wars, Johan Valentin...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...acquired in US homes in the service of self-determination. And their children did return. Although Andrew Jackson's adopted son—who came to be called Lyncoya—was an exception, many of the Southeast Indian...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...Interior, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Collier Heights Historic District Application, NPS Form 10-900,OMB No. 1024-0018, received by NPS May 15, 2009, http://www.nps.gov/nr/publications/sample_nominations/CollierHeightsHD.pdf. Map of...