Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...identify others. More than thirty attended that first meeting. Since its inception, the purpose of the club has been to promote interest in street-rodding activities, to create fellowship, and to...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
Introduction On a warm Saturday in early summer, a crowd gathers at a white-washed church in rural Alabama. As they begin to sing, a sound rises that is overwhelming in...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...that we want to put everything into this database, but that is neither feasible nor desirable. If we were to map "everything," I'm not sure that we'd understand what we're...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...somewhat uneven book, law professors Christine A. Klein and Sandra B. Zellmer combine environmental and legal history in their examination of the relationship between human action and disaster in the...
Day of action, Freedom Plaza, Washington, D.C., September 27, 2010
...federal Army Corps of Engineers points to the complexity of environmental issues that transcend regional boundaries. Rena Xavier, Day of action, Freedom Plaza, Washington, D.C., September 27, 2010....
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...convinced that I understood the documentary process well enough. Although I had conducted many interviews at GPB, I was nervous that I wasn't properly prepared. But what I was most...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...discriminatory practices, and overt racism that typified the Jim Crow era. In addition to the "promise of freedom" outside the South was the wealth of opportunity in the industrial cities...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...I do a Q & A people ask "What happened? What happened with the violence?" So, that is just a reality of that medium, giving up some depth in order...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...obsolete incubators of anomie that drained cities of their worth. This inexact narrative has been so dominant that the view of public housing as disastrous, and therefore in need of...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...way that I think the outstanding numbers will come in," a strategy that effectively traumatized the prisoners. Derrick’s comment that he lacked "sufficient numbers to guard them scattered as they...