Finding Media
...few favorite sites and search strategies for finding useable media: Public Domain and US Government works: The term "public domain" can be a little tricky—there are a number of caveats...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...numbers and letters in each quadrant of the X, recorded coded information. Later, as I recalled my odyssey through drowned areas of the city, I kept returning to that visual...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...rural counties across the United States, Madison experienced rapid change. In the 1960s, a significant number of newcomers entered Madison County from outside the Southern Appalachian region. The earliest of...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 7, 2009. Photograph by Mark Fischer. Courtesy of Mark Fischer. As our bulletins have previously reported, legislatures in a number of southern states...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...Atlanta's, but many other municipal codes are silent. A number of cities, towns, and counties are facing an unexpected ambiguity: if there is nothing on the books about chickens, is...
Walt Whitman in Alabama
...to walk off or sing unwritten, maybe when the open road opened on mockingbirds two and two— no one knows, though the stories have him here recapturing Attalla, shaking poems...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...space jumbled with coats and book bags, we would stand in front of her and open our mouths and recite. "I" was In the beginning, of course. And "L" was...
Darkly
...from there to the shore and then as far upriver as you can see. Here it's only open water, empty sky, two ends of road no one uses, landfill on...
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...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...Image is in public domain. In 1949, the government announced plans to open Oak Ridge to the outside world. Many residents voiced opposition. At a town council meeting attended by...