The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...in New Orleans. It was my first trip into the city after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and I had been touring a friend around landscapes and cityscapes that I...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...lights on, businesses like Wal-Mart are becoming the major employers. When mines close and the number of miners decreases, company housing may deteriorate, be abandoned, or replaced by mobile homes....
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...by wartime security, SOM explained its development plan: A plan not for any city but for a particular city, a city located at a particular point in the United States...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
The Crowd He Becomes
...have done it it wouldn't have been alone, he would have had a driver and a man out west to phone in threats to draw the cops away. They'd ease...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Anglophone Caribbean's plantation zone. The founding of a settlement that became Charleston, South Carolina, by a group of planters from Barbados in the 1670s functions as the analytical core of...
Besieged Terrain
...The technique destroys forests, introduces heavy metals into drinking water, vastly increases erosion and flooding, and reduces the number of many species of birds, especially wood warblers, and other rare...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...producers, filmmakers, and journalists found inspiration and authenticity in the archival resources of the Schomburg. While he was living in New York City, Denzel Washington frequently disguised himself and came...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans Matt Sakakeeny traces the celebrated and contested political and economic terrain where brass bands make music that defines the city. In Sakakeeny's...
In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library
...“Walt Whitman in Alabama” Text of Poems Referenced "In the Magic City," "From A Field Guide to Etowah County," "The Crowd He Becomes," "At Liberty (1961)," "At Liberty (1964)," "Substantiation,"...