Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...first noncommercial, religious resort for blacks under the auspices of the Gulfside-Chautauqua Association in Waveland, Mississippi. If ragtime, alcohol, gambling, and the occasional brawl enlivened outings elsewhere, the Gulfside Assembly...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...catalyzed reciprocal travel among fledgling Sacred Harp singing groups in Europe. Reciprocal travel, which helped sustain a plethora of rural southern singings in the wake of massive out-migration during the...
The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks
...Koon, “Ruth Coker Burks: The Cemetery Angel,” Arkansas Times, January 8, 2015, https://arktimes.com/news/cover-stories/2015/01/08/ruth-coker-burks-the-cemetery-angel. Alongside care work and public activism, Ruth provided a final resting place for some men she cared...
Editorial Style Guide
...by and, use a comma before and. The ECDS brings together four units: the Digital Scholarship Commons (DiSC), the Electronic Data Center, the Lewis H. Beck Center for Electronic Collections,...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...should have access to free comprehensive health care. And—supporting the right of LGBT people to choose same-sex marriage, if we choose to, is a way to show solidarity with millions...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...economy, easily the best among the 102 largest US markets. The city’s success became a model others sought to emulate. Eliot Tretter, quoting Andrew Park, observes in the opening pages of Shadows...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...In Jacksonland, Inskeep offers the book-length equivalent of his op-ed. He narrates Cherokee Removal through the lives and careers of Jackson and Ross, presenting parallel biographies. He charts Jackson's rise from...
And the Prize Goes to...
Elizabeth Engelhardt. Photograph by Marsha Miller. Courtesy of the University of Texas. At the end of the Spring 2015 semester, seventeen students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel...
White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta
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Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...also a landscape of commerce that developed locally and largely eluded British control at the hands of merchants, traders, and boatmen. By the end of the American Revolution the old...