Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...down sun-latticed paths shaded by live oaks and crape myrtle, maybe visit the Negro quarters, and then drink alone at night. Late in life he sank a small fortune into...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...and back, the sheer lack of space in which people could live in New Orleans in the eighteenth century. Though topography dictated many of the choices New Orleanians made about...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...they still lived in public housing. "The irony of the Chicago case," writes Goetz, "is that the considerable achievements in coordinating city services were realized in public housing communities only...
Palomares Bajo
...Such "ruins" extend well beyond US borders to homelands and imperial outposts where communities must continue to live with the mistakes, misjudgements, and moral failings of nuclear belligerents—differently perceived depending...
Whiskey and Geography
...made people fight as if their lives depended on it. Indeed, they proved Hamilton’s assertion to Congress that a whiskey tax was a luxury tax had been simply wrong. Instead,...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...and music. At the end of the session recorded in October 2005, Eddie Bo addressed his own and the broader New Orleans public’s need to return, live in, and rebuild...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...of Coronavirus on the Way We Live (New York: Little, Brown Spark 2020); Scott Gottlieb, Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic (New...
Roadside Architecture
...in north Mississippi and regionally around the rest of the "mid-South." I'd spent major portions of my childhood summers in North Carolina and lived in Texas as an adult, but...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...comprehend the horrendous injustice of slavery, the kidnapping of millions of people from Africa, the stealing of their lives from them, and then the theft of their labor for hundreds...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...Jews. Since the colonial era, Jews and Gentiles had lived in relatively peaceful coexistence in the South. Latent prejudice toward Jews nonetheless surfaced in times of social and economic upheaval,...