Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...contains lists of dates, events, and brief personal and speculative narratives that attempt to amass a wealth of local (and professional?) credibility with which 12ward might be able to challenge...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...sports journalist Don Yaeger, Bryant, when asked in the mid-1960s if he would start recruiting black athletes to play for the University of Alabama's Crimson Tide, replied "I won't be...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...Pickers, 1947. Sketch by John Biggers, depicting his early realist style. Photo courtesy of John Biggers's Estate. John Biggers Papers, Emory University Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Throughout his...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...of Augusta, or discrete elements, such as maps. His discussion of Augusta details the ways English traders shaped a space to suit their needs rather than conforming to the imperialist...
Glocal Lounge
...Cheryl Temple Herr writes, "Critical-regionalist-cultural studies has great potential for producing a unified but highly adaptive analysis of international flows at the local-regional level, towards the end of a more...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
Review Max Grivno's subtle and remarkably textured history of labor in northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania, Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason Dixon Line, 1790–1860, details...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...time. The photograph appears as if it was framed and shot by Christenberry but processed and printed by Doris Ulmann, or some other pictorialist photographer, in the early twentieth-century. Burning...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...she was listed as a sixty-nine-year-old “servant” in the home of Frank Woodruff, in the town of Woodruff. On August 4, 1927, J. R. Snoddy noted in his journal that...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...attentiveness to landscapes and ecologies in Southern Studies and environmental history is more complex. Historian Barbara J. Fields argued at a conference of southern regionalist historians in the late 1990s...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...list of actors and moments through which, "every so often," compassionate people in particular places call upon their "fundamental goodness to make this country great again:" "that band of patriots...