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...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...of American History 94, no. 3 (December 2007): 863–876; Lynnell L. Thomas, Desire and Disaster in New Orleans: Tourism, Race, and Historical Memory (Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2014), 158–173....
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...(Source: "Shooting the Chutes," Atlanta Constitution (April 9, 1896), pg. 10. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, privately-owned amusement parks dotted the American landscape, and by 1920, between...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...Journal of Southern History 71, no. 1 (2005): 75–104. The most thorough and broad context for this incident can be found in Manisha Sinha's book, The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and...
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...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
Southern Spaces is pairing with Emory University's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Books Library (MARBL) to publish short features on MARBL collections, events, and exhibits that tell the history of spaces...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...Change in these latitudes has often been more of the same. Which is why this WPA guidebook deserves placement in the ranks of the permanently useful. You can still follow...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...book, William O'Brien tells the story of segregated state parks and recovers a history that states have worked assiduously to erase. O'Brien's is the third book in the Library of...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
..."City Plan Sept. 1926–Oct. 1927"/AHC; E. A. Wood, Dallas Morning News, August 8, 1926. As de jure segregation was illegal in Texas, planners used zoning and "separate but equal" legislation....
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...Subgroup 2, Series 41, Box 1, Department of Agriculture, Georgia Archives; Hal Allen, "Air War Set in Macon Area on White-Fringed Beetle," Macon Telegraph, July 15, 1946, 1; "Battle against...