Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...than a sexy, murky adventure swamp, its Louisiana is in tension between a postindustrial fade to iron surrounded by barren earth and the wild rule of plants and reptiles. As...
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...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...religious leaders rejected the association the military made between Camp Pike's high venereal disease rate and the "terrible conditions" in Hot Springs. See "Ministerial Men to Discuss Morals: Report from...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...in the Appalachian movement. The field began in the tension and turmoil of activism vs. scholarship, but currently, if not a complete fusion, there seems to be mutual respect between...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...book, the problems it raises, and the ones that remain to be raised. Gwen Ottinger, whose 2013 book Refining Expertise performed a sharp analysis of discourse between local activists protesting...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Turner Field). Throughout the two weeks between the Opening and Closing Ceremonies on Sunday, August 4, the place and purpose of this patently international gathering was juxtaposed to the corporate...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...growth, performers and industry leaders tried to maintain a delicate balance between the sacred and the secular, between maintaining tradition and embracing professionalism. Reconciling these competing purposes allowed the genre...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...that all the stories worth telling—stories of love and betrayal, heartache and triumph, justice and oppression—could be found in one small corner of the world. Getting the stories right meant...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
..."Castle," Washington, DC, between 1980 and 2006. Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-HS503- 4211. Were enslaved persons involved in the construction of the original...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...in one—and went skinny-dipping. Sometimes people walked to a big Victorian house on Hill Street and danced to mixtapes in the hall between the rolled-back pocket doors until their clothes...