On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...Oklahoma, landmark and source of civic pride: the Big Peanut? Howe details the mysterious theft of "the sacred nut," a "gray, four-foot-long heavy cast-aluminum statue" presented to the city by...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...the levee that protected the richest cotton land in the Missouri Bootheel in order to relieve pressure on the levees guarding the city of Cairo, Illinois. The threatened stretch of...
The Liminal Site
...Soja happily calls "the Edge City maxim, that every American city is growing in the fashion of Los Angeles," would have simply ignored the site, and potentially all Birmingham's parks...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
... Places are, in short, "open and porous," "mental territories" constructed through a multiplicity of relations with "other" places.3Massey, Space, Place, and Gender, 5; Andrew R. L. Cayton and Susan E. Gray,...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...investigation exonerated the victims of any crimes, no law enforcement officer or member of the posse who took part in the atrocity faced charges for the murders. In detailing the...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...of graffiti-covered saltpeter caves manage to conjure both the too-perfect beauty of contemporary nature photographs and the urban grit of images of tagged subways and warehouses. Return is on display...
Early Roller Coaster Patents
...strongly suggesting that multiple rides based on his invention were built by others. A possible example may be a ride at Oakland Beach, Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania. An 1885 advertisement for...
Watching the Surface for a Sign
Readings Patrick Phillips reads "Brass Knuckles." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "The Chimney." Poem text. Patrick Phillips reads "The Flood." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "Heaven." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads an excerpt...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...venues. A handful of singing minutes feature no specific location, instead providing just a city or town and county. Other minutes include a city or town but no county, or...
Racial breakdown of the population of the fourteen Georgia counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley.
County White Alone, #, 2000 White Alone, %, 2000 Black Alone, #, 2000 Black Alone, %, 2000 Chattahoochee 8,643 58.08 4,453 29.92 Clay 1,290 38.43 2,030 60.47 Decatur 16,126...