A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...considerations would impact the vote. Indeed, it's hard to imagine otherwise.5MARTA first went before voters in 1968 when it was defeated in the city of Atlanta and Fulton and DeKalb...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...in 1900; the Erwin Cotton Mill in Durham in 1919; or the Baldwin Mill in Marion in 1929. The looms in the Margilan weave room had been manufactured in the...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...Dixie, including Pfeifer's own essay, reinforces the very geographical distinctions it was meant to challenge. Considering this implicit conclusion, the accusatory tone in Pfeifer's introduction and in some of the...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...port cities. Instead, it was a sluggish disease endemic in the island's mountainous interior. Whereas in Cuba most yellow fever victims were nonimmune Spanish immigrants, in Puerto Rico most hookworm...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...interview included in one of the Revisiting student projects. Flaherty can be challenged for failing to anticipate what was arriving with the oil industry. Indeed it is in some ways deeply ironic...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...in Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas, and extended to the Pacific, with some populations in California.13Audubon, Quadrupeds, 125. The opossum—which is remarkably fecund due to its short gestation period and...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...and even during the Great Depression in the 1930s, but Jean's interest in photography waned. Sometime in the early 1940s he sold his interest in the company to his brother...
Writing Appalachia
...with copyright holders. Some writing we wished to include was off-limits to us due to copyright restrictions increasingly imposed by large commercial publishing houses. Within these restrictions, we have tried...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...of itself involves an infusion of city into country and vice versa. Sibley approaches the pastoral ideal of "the country" that emphasizes the "peace, innocence, and simple virtue" of rural...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...and in some cases to Canada. In 12 hours the fresh and tempting fruits and vegetables are delivered in New York, in 20 hours in Boston, and in 30 hours...