Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...approach to releasing prisoners, one that offers educational, residential, and employment opportunities, would ensure that no ex-inmate is overlooked and has an opportunity to become a contributing member of society. ...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...in Coastal Louisiana, 1934" (PhD dissertation, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2011). Caffery offers the first systematic exploration of the music that compelled Lomax eighty years ago. Under the tutelage of...
Winslow Homer and the American Civil War
Presentation Part 2: Wood details the history of Winslow’s painting, “Near Andersonville.” Part 3: Wood explains Homer’s possible motivations for painting “Near Andersonville Part 4: Examining soldiers in the painting, Wood offers a...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...shaped questions about culture, education, identity, and labor as experienced by Latinos living and working in various locations across the US South. “The history of Latino people offers a new...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...credit, Tretter points out that Shadows of a Sunbelt City is “not written to reflect a straightforward historical narrative,” and offers multiple reasons why Austin is important to study (5)....
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...In Jacksonland, Inskeep offers the book-length equivalent of his op-ed. He narrates Cherokee Removal through the lives and careers of Jackson and Ross, presenting parallel biographies. He charts Jackson's rise from...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...hierarchical relationships among towns based on tribute and surplus. He then offers two Spanish expeditions' (de Soto's and Juan Pardo's) interactions with large chiefdoms to illuminate the complex political landscape...
The Bulletin—May 15, 2012
...last couple of weeks. Adam Bink of The Huffington Post offers "A Look at What Happened on Amendment 1 in North Carolina," from the perspective of someone involved in the...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...the Tremé's gentrification. To reveal the tensions inherent in the Tremé's development, Roll With It offers the example of Kerwin James of Rebirth Brass Band, who suffered a stroke and...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...Charles Davenport's testimony many years later in the WPA narratives offers a glimpse of what one recruiter ran up against at Aventine Plantation, on the other side of Second Creek....