Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...and greater than the New Orleans 20 percent rate documented before the diaspora set in motion by Hurricane Katrina.2US Census Bureau, "People Below Poverty Level in the Past 12 Months,"...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...move across the city landscape to more private spaces after meeting in more public ones. Map showing grades of security, Houston, Texas, 1937. Map by Texas Map and Blueprinting Company,...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...more recently, Kari Frederickson, Cold War Dixie: Militarization and Modernization in the American South (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013). —the role of local boosters, corporations, and federal spending, the...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...Teche, André de LaVarre, Columbia Pictures Corporation, 1942. Courtesy of Columbia Pictures. In contrast to Flaherty's characters, the "Quaint Folks" of LaVarre's Columbia film are anonymous and typified; the voice-over...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...Urea: "Whether you'd like to pay people more, or you don't want to pay people more, the driving force is not our heart." The resulting impression of globalization that Morristown...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...a representative figure for those more successful over time in frustrating and blocking school desegregation. Segregationists with other styles and backgrounds built the more lasting terms, tools, and tactics that...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...McGraw et al., The Sacred Harp, 299. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss4Td-xSsAE&feature=youtu.be?rel=0&enablejsapi=1 [360-degree videos can only be viewed on a desktop computer or in the YouTube app on a mobile device. Click and drag...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...operated by the Majors. Monday is senior night with bingo.35Ezzard. Ezzard is co-owner of the Tiger Mountain Vineyard mentioned here. Tom and Sherryl Majors sell tickets, supervise the snack bar,...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...custom of depositing the money into the national treasury. Signifying far more than an opportunity to express preferences regarding the distribution of money, the annuity question provided a public referendum...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...became the most successful birth control program organized among a rural population before the advent and spread of more “modern” methods of contraception such as the IUD and the pill....