Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...count on one hand the number of writers given high administrative responsibility. Saxon was one of them, and maybe the most highly regarded of the lot. On several occasions Washington...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...construction of bridges across the Santee River to the north and the Cooper River to Charleston in the 1920s. Today, the town’s largely white population numbers around 450. Conversely, the...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985); C. Topalov, "Scientific Urban Planning and the Ordering of Daily Life: The First 'War Housing' Experiment in the United States, 1917–1919,"...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...were portrayed. Duval News Company, Old Slave Market, St. Augustine, Fla., Oldest City in the United States, c. 1915, recto. Collection of the Author. From "St. Augustine's 'Slave Market': A...
The Bulletin—July 24, 2012
...temperatures and the worst drought in the continental United States since the 1950s. NOAA's report and a study they completed with a similar agency in the United Kingdom suggest that...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Album, 1–2. In 1825, with the signing of the infamous Treaty of Indian Springs between the United States and the Creek Nation, the way was opened for the forced final...
Writing Appalachia
...with the remarkable number of fine authors whose works had appeared since the book's publication, made that collection feel incomplete. Aware of those gaps, Higgs and Manning, along with scholar...
Brushes with War
...International Society of War Artists. In "The Joe Bonham Project" (named for the soldier in Dalton Trumbo's 1938 novel Johnny Got His Gun), more than a dozen artists focused their...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...venue to the "Race Course," and reduced the number of persons for sale: Joseph Bryan’s Advertisements for the “Sale of Slaves”, The Savannah Daily Morning News, February 27, 1859. Mortimer...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...published widely in the area of Appalachian studies and international education and served as the 2006–2007 president of the Appalachian Studies Association. Berry is currently working on a project that...