Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...for good food, there is also a yearning for an idealized, pastoral past and an agrarian vision of virtue and abundance. So many city dwellers descend from rural roots —...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...and San Francisco, where their visibility and numbers result in political clout and political influence. Greenwich Village in New York and the Castro in San Francisco were two models; pioneer...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...healthy, it's not good."4Ibid. The easy assumption of the position of proconsul, of the purveyor of the "good" and the "healthy" and the defender of Americanness, is a mark of...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...to understand the critical acclaim. Its pages crackle with the nervous energy of good writing. No tour guide, before or since—and there have been several good ones—has done a better...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...Good intentions were beside the point. Observing proper judicial forms didn't matter. Twelve white men simply would not convict someone of their ilk of murdering an African American, especially when...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...the other hand, negotiated a treaty and developed strong bilateral relations with Toussaint Louverture. Paulus contends that South Carolina congressman Robert Goodloe Harper fretted about a potential invasion from the...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...century, road development partisans began to coalesce into a national "Good Roads" movement. A weak federal Office of Road Inquiry was established in 1892, but had no real authority or...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...Numbers," CCM Update, March 29, 1999; and Lindy Warren, "Top 15 Impact-Makers in 1997," CCM Update, December 22, 1997. The only subgenre of white Christian music that remains relatively strong...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...scholars have often framed the historic relationship between material cartographic objects and Blackness as an almost axiomatic opposition. And with perhaps good reason: looking at the cartographic archive of the slavery-era...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...latest technology: Princess phones played recorded messages and elaborate electric maps traced troop movements. A Mercury space capsule proudly perched nearby, an incongruous and yet resonant symbol of the unified...