Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...Then he was lucky. He was always lucky. He bought good cheap land, sold it for quick profit, bottle, and a fast car—headed north. He left their world, returned years...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...a limited number of tunes. Singing schools emerged to teach lay-persons the basics of reading and performing music. These schools operated independently of any congregation or denomination and were run...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...marketing was focusing on the film's white stars (there was also a poster featuring Michael Fassbender, who at least has a lot of screen time) at the expense of its...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...major park to be authorized by the city, City Park was also the last to be built. Here’s the timeline: in 1858, the city received full title to this once-upon-a-time...
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...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...For example, researchers calculate the number of Latinos attending schools with more than 50% minority enrollments in district X divided by the total number of Latinos in school district X....
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...and future of the entire city/region. The return of particular family funerals around this time was also taken as a sign of "life" in the neighborhoods of New Orleans. As...
A City Divided
...those of smaller means lived on Johnson Avenue, Randolph Street, Highland Avenue . . . East Avenue, Rice Street, Angier Avenue, Morgan Street, and Pine Street, which at that time...
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...
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
John Vachon, Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas, 1943. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Color Photographs Collection, LC-USW36-839. Southern Spaces recently added six new images to the...