Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...Kathleen Frydl thinks the drug war started earlier, in conjunction with the Cold War in the '40s and '50s, and traces the preoccupation with "kingpins" to domineering figures like Harry...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...in the early 1930s. In fact, Louisiana started permitting and regulating oil exploration as early as 1939. The discussion in 1953 about how Tennessee Gas's proposed "Muskrat Line" natural gas...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
..."Confederate Flag Rally," along the highways of Walton, Newton, and Rockdale counties. Both events started at 10:00 am, and began and ended at sites in Monroe about a mile away...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Jesse Peel on the Geography of Atlanta's LGBT Community
...In the early 1980s, many of Peel's clients and friends became sick and started dying from a mysterious new disease eventually named the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, commonly known as AIDS....
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...Video still from Susan Levitas, The Music District, 1996. When the tide started to turn after the millennium, the city faced a new problem—gentrification and the dissolution of a concentrated...
Whiskey and Geography
...needed only equipment and grain to get started. Those who had no prior knowledge worked with neighbors and learned by doing.4Joseph Earl Dabney, Mountain Spirits, Vol. 1 (Asheville, NC: Bright...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...begin by giving praise to the almighty. I don't feel no ways tired. I come too far from where I started from. Nobody told me that the road would be...
"Possum on Terrace": A Typed Manuscript from John Egerton on Journalist Johnny Popham
...covering civil rights and desegregation era racial politics for southern newspapers. These men along with a group of higher education specialists also started informal conferences, which they called Popham Seminars,...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...place and time, R.E.M., especially given the band’s recent breakup. Knowing music snobs will name quirky, dance-inducing Pylon. Some people will praise the wig-wearing cut-ups who started it all, the...
Laurel River, North Carolina
...over the Laurel River. This pour started about 3A.M. in an effort to keep the temperature of the concrete low so as not to cure too fast, Laurel River, NC,...