Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...essays and projects that deal with the legacies of these events, we especially encourage new treatments and analyses of how the making of space and place expresses power, injustice, and social...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
Review Sensory history is an exciting new approach to writing history. It offers a fresh take on past perceptions. Sensing between the lines of written sources, the sensory historian recasts...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...enslaved became a defining characteristic of the slaveholding South" is not new (3). One of the strengths of The Slaveholding Crisis is its broad survey of the antebellum period through...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...Campos Torres," "South Carolina (Barnwell)," and "On Coming from A Broken Home." Scott-Heron's South was neither monolithic nor static, but a geography constantly responding to new political forces and new...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...that will add new tensions and pose even more communication problems, but it can also make the field more dynamic and relevant to the region. Lower Price Hill Mural, Cincinnati,...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...booming new market economy on the Ohio River Valley in the 1820s and 1830s, spurred primarily, Salafia notes, by the emergence of steamboats. This rapidly expanding river trade provided new...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...and blues—combined countercultural psychedelic and pastoral sensibilities with country's bucolic portraits and urban styles (including western swing and honky-tonk).1Jan Reid, The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock (New York: Da Capo...
Black Population Atlanta and the Vicinity, 1940-1970
Maps for "White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta" Kevin Kruse, White Flight and the Making of Modern Conservatism Published: 28 November 2005 © 2006 Kevin...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...area and to the vast number of absentee landowners. Natural resource identification, mapping, and purchasing occurred as early as the eighteenth century, but these absentee holdings could not be fully...
The Cobb County Braves
...the new stadium will follow a current trend in stadium development in the United States. As teams build new ballparks with smaller capacities, ticket prices rise as demand increases. Furthermore,...