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...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...water climb higher than before, and in the spring the people of the town visit mounds filled with bones. They buy feathers and skin painted bright colors, or whistles drilled...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...to the Shropshires, January 9, 2013. Smith was one of the original land buyers in the Woodlawn Heights Development Company, which built and developed significant portions of Collier Heights. He...
Searcy County Livestock Auction
...until its closure in 2009. Operating once a week, it attracted both local and out-of-state buyers. Initially, the auction sold both cattle and hogs, gaining a reputation as one of...
Marginalization, Mobility, and Sunday Strolls on the Farm
...After buying rural routes from the Kerrville Bus Company in 2012, the discount travel company Megabus recently discontinued service to small towns in Texas' Southwest Area Regional Transit District, leaving...
Sweep
...lived here all year I'd buy American, I'd drive a truck, and I'm thinking of football and my father's and Mike's words staking out an absence I know I won't...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...Orleans provided warehouses to store the river’s goods, businessmen to buy and sell them, and captains to transport them. Powell gives vivid portraits of the different visions of empire that...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...and buying natural fibers can create change in the absence of the hard work of lobbying and community organizing. Traffic on River Road heading toward Valero, Destrehen, Louisiana. Photograph by...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...tan / my hair is fine / My hips invite you . . . Whose little girl am I? / Anyone who has money to buy / What do they...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...cultural legacy and began to buy houses. In founding the Historic Faubourg Tremé Association these newcomers hoped to tackle, according to their mission statement "blight, crime, and grime" (29). Sakakeeny...