Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...history, the smartphone-friendly tour provides GPS directions and mapping, historical information about each of its twelve stops, and multimedia content including video and historical images. It requires no download and...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...latest technology: Princess phones played recorded messages and elaborate electric maps traced troop movements. A Mercury space capsule proudly perched nearby, an incongruous and yet resonant symbol of the unified...
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)....
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...for good reason and a city living a particular sort of life because of its location and the reasons behind it… planned as a place of good living for people...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...and provide more reasons for young people to stay in, return to, or move to the region to make a life. How can Appalachian Studies take advantage of new technologies...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...farm, Belle Chase, in the Mississippi Delta. She left, “for many of the same reasons anyone ever chooses to leave a rural area, and there will always be a certain...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...of the music that emerged around 2000, but the book gives little insight into the ways in which the music changed since its late 1980s inception, the timing and reasons...
A Mess of Poke
...include a poke-eating contest). There are other reasons poke is maligned. Because of its aggressive growth, gardeners consider it a bane, much like kudzu. (In fact, kudzu is just as...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...her hands (protected for practical reasons) shine at the end of her dark-brown arms, as if she is still wearing her work gloves. In contrast, her older sister Callie is...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...of the characters, it fails to emphasize what's most important in the novel: the violence the Bundrens do to each other for reasons both innocent and evil. An absent scene...