"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...into the modern era by the cheap electricity and federal intervention of the New Deal's Tennessee Valley Authority. (There are two TVA songs in the Truckers catalogues.)2The two songs are...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...would also allow for the cheaper transportation of fossil fuels, Spears argues that the NO DAPL protests were a great example of "an intersectional grassroots movement linking indigenous rights, climate...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...perhaps the experience of total darkness is "only claptrap after all"—an underground version of some cheap carnival gimmick. After Nick leaves him alone, Fawcett describes visions before him, those "subjective...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...Epps. Viewers numbed by years of cheap thrills need a film like this to remind them that horror is real and persistent, especially if you try to ignore it. About...
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...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...his mind flooded with dozens of cases of FHA discrimination. For example, he observed that, since he moved to Elbert County in 1952, the number of black farmers fell from...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...University of Texas at Austin. Since coming to Mississippi in 1999, he has worked on a number of photographic projects, including "Local Legacies: the First Monday Sale and Trade Days...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...Take Highway 11 North all the way to Monroe. (Follow the instructions as outlined above.) Note: If you pass Church’s Chicken you have gone too far. Church Telephone Number 770-267-5819...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...reviewed by the editorial board. AtlantaStudies.org also offers a gateway to several projects and resources. Current featured projects are the ECDS's Battle of Atlanta smartphone-accessible tour; the Peoplestown Project about the...
The Liminal Site
...with a Chinese or Japanese provenance—daphnes, gardenias, camellias, lacecap hydrangeas. (While there were several evergreen azaleas already on the property, however, I was not tempted to add to their number.)...