Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...“contrabands,” enslaved African Americans who crossed into the federal lines, 1862. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia. Homes Broadside, 1873. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia. The exhibit reveals...
The Black Belt
...photographs from 1914 US Geological Survey “Cretaceous Deposits of the Eastern Gulf Region,” Selma, Alabama, ca. 1914. Image uploaded by Flickr user Internet Archive Book Images. Image is in the...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...road, "Poor Monkey's Road." Tour groups stop here regularly, as do college students on field trips from around the United States. NOTE: In early spring 2006, Seaberry started calling the...
Deep Ellum Blues
...L. McDonald, Dallas Rediscovered: A Photographic Chronicle of Urban Expansion, 1870-1925 (Dallas: The Dallas Historical Society, 1978), v. Almost nothing, neither geography nor government, constrained the growth of the city, and it...
Early Roller Coaster Patents
...Up Hill," New York Times, June 27, 1884]. Wood's obituary [Toledo Blade, May 4, 1909] indicates that he licensed his patent for as much as $17,000 in a single year,...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...and Technology Camp) Feminisms South. On the first day of our unconference we edited and wrote Wikipedia articles along with others across the United States, particularly at THATCamp Feminisms West...
The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. The 2012 United States presidential election results have led mapmakers and illustrators over the past week to search for new ways to...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...Polikoff Proposal," Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy 1, no. 1 (Summer 2006), http://www.law.northwestern.edu/journals/njlsp/v1/n1/4/. Yet, as Goetz poignantly maintains, de-concentrating poverty is not the same as altering the economic...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...Star State, across the South, and indeed, across the entire United States, were vigorously undoing the gains achieved by blacks during the Civil War and Reconstruction, all the while imposing...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...successful landscaper in the 1980s. He is renowned for pairing English garden aesthetics with native plants of the southeastern United States. As is evident in the introduction of this short...