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
...October 15, 2008. New Orleans-based American Routes radio host Nick Spitzer refers to them as "conjuring a cross between the Vévé signs of voudun and a kind of military coroner's...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...to the college town of Mars Hill (at 2,200 feet). Construction of the six-lane, $230 million section of road was finished in 2003. Drill rig preparing to take core rock...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...user Ron Cogswell. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 2.0. Middle, Woolworth's counter exhibit, Raleigh, North Carolina, 2012. Photograph by Flickr user Tim Bounds. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 2.0. Bottom, Woolworth's Sit-In sculpture, Greensboro,...
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...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...out-of-the-way places.”1 James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), 8. Scott adduces as examples of...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...the lobby of a hotel-apartment, is no longer operable, though reference can be found at "Minetta Green," NYC Parks, Access April 11, 2023, www.nycgovparks.org/parks/minetta-green/history; Village Creek Environmental Human & Environmental...
Gone With the Wind
One night in 1940 my granddad slumped in the dark in the Princess Theatre, which is not here anymore, to watch Gone With the Wind, then watch it again, in...
Work
...room. My only factory stint. Never set foot in a towel mill. But that doesn't matter. I dreamed my mother's and grandmother's dreams. Dreams of clatter and snap, of doffers...
History: The Parlor
Mid-nineteenth-century homes included a formal parlor, sometimes described by social historians as a "sacred" space, where weddings, funerals, and other public events were held. In addition, larger houses, such...