Spencer's Inc., Mount Airy, North Carolina, 2010
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...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
..."a businessman who'd wanted there to be a downtown attraction that honored local peanut growers" (52). The iconic goober's origins are well known and clearly explained, and its removal is...
The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
...Elizabeth Colbert Busch, the Director of Business Development at Clemson University and, incidentally, sister of faux-Republican comedian Stephen Colbert. Although this district has not elected a Democrat to Congress since...
Flea market, near Social Circle, Georgia, 2007
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...York: Longman Publishers, 2003). Atlanta's location in the heart of the US South, its reputation as a business center, and its role as a transportation hub (interstate highways, railroads, and...
The Border South
...contributed to the crisis' resolution. Naval bases in Maryland and Virginia represented massive federal power in the region, not to mention federal dollars and jobs. Businessmen were dubious of school...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...the murdering, but who was only a relative of one the real masterminds: a cabal of politicians, nonprofit leaders, businessmen, police, and meth cookers who stage gruesome murders, kidnap children,...
Writing Appalachia
...industrialization, modern transportation, consumerism, migration, the centralization of American agricultural production in agribusiness enterprises outside the region, suburbanization, the global connections of the internet, and the multiple genres of electronic...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...ESA has covered bills for ten households in the past year, as well as covered a year of utilities for the BARRED Business house, which provides stable, community-owned housing for...