A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...the T-SPLOST's greatest impact may have been to signal to national and even international audiences that Atlanta has the wherewithal to at least address its debilitating mobility crisis. With federal...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...global perspective in "Beyond 'Déjà vu All Over Again?' Women's Work in the Global Economy," Journal of Women's History 19, no. 3 (October 2007), 222–31. Historical Perspectives on the Global...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...challenges—from proliferating slave insurgencies to vocal liberal-abolitionist mobilization. But along industrial plantations' margins, vast and socially vibrant free rural communities of African descent made homes for themselves against many odds....
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...Lake," an estuarine habitat typical for coastal Florida. The name changed, however, alongside usage. In the 1920s real estate promoters began pitching new developments around a shallow, still tidal estuarine...
Genres of Southern Literature
...user Lord_of_the_Flies. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Southern literature is substantially recognizable as contingent upon certain identifiers: geographic, social, cultural, political, as well as historical and linguistic contingencies that...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...the end of a trolley line. Although these parks often offered free admission, trolley companies still benefited financially from their existence in several ways. The park's location at the line's...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...albums prior to their breakout. The most prominent, From Arkansas With Love, is full of original material, almost all written by Joyce Martin. The songs are structurally derivative and lyrically...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...also Frederick Cooper, Allen F. Isaacman, Florencia E. Mallon, William Roseberry, and Steve J. Stern, Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...appear directly before county clerks. The local official's missive did little to shift the burden. The Bureau's regional headquarters dispatched to local field offices forms for registering freedmen and women,...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...of which—along with other notable musicians—brought new attention in national and international press to New Orleans’ cultural revival as a sign of larger material, social, and economic recovery. The same...