The Carolina Piedmont
...agricultural practices and construction techniques, borrowing from Germans and English, the dominant Scotch-Irish spread a subsistence-agriculture, log-house, livestock, corn, and woodlands-pasture culture throughout the region and into the Appalachians. The...
The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
...hundred largest commuter zones in the study (worst here meaning the least likely for children born to low-income families to ever rise out of poverty), was used by The New...
History: The Parlor
...as the one built by Samuel Snoddy before his marriage, would also include some sort of sitting room intended for the family's private use. Material culture researchers frequently refer to...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...increased use of formerly segregated sites led whites to abandon public spaces in favor of private facilities. States and cities steadily withdrew support for public parks and recreation.2Kevin M. Kruse,...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...Dasgupta, "New Geospatial Bill Raises Questions on Private Industry Use, Academic Research, and Digital India." The Wired (May 10, 2016): http://thewire.in/35044/new-geospatial-bill-raises-a-hundred-questions-on-private-industry-use-academic-research-and-digital-india/. A New Map of Africa, the Latest Authorities, 1811....
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...the promise of a coherent and distinctive effort but whose constitutive features remain contested. Hey Y'all, November 10, 2012. Photograph courtesy of Flickr user Gregory Morris. Creative Commons license CC...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...after the defeat of the Confederate States of America, however, Richmond stubbornly clung to its "lost cause." Led by its veterans and ladies associations, the city put up a massive...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...States and some of her fellow American writers. The volume, entitled Useful Knowledge and published in 1928, contains a "Valentine to Sherwood Anderson" and "A Second Portrait of Carl Van...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...Points/Candler Park patronized Charis because, as one respondent put it, "it was in the neighborhood, and women ran it."2Jane and Anne [pseud.], interviewed by Saralyn Chesnut, tape recording, Atlanta, GA,...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...a sixteen-room French Quarter townhouse, donning the mask of urban sophisticate. It was as if he were striving to recreate the lifestyle of planter patriarchs who used to divide their...