Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...underinvest in others, such as commitments to public education, has affected the city's approach to economic development in the postindustrial era and its prospects for success as a "comeback city."1Paul...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...copy circulated from city to city, following debuts in Minneapolis in 1886 and Detroit in 1887, the painting's visual retelling of a famous fight validated martial heroics on each side,...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...to commemorate the slave sale.54Allynne Tosca Owens, City Planner, City of Savannah, personal communication, March 2, 2009. The city's actions were prompted by Monifa Johnson, a niece of Mayor Otis...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...and similarly split districts in surrounding Davidson County, under Superintendent J. E. Moss. In round numbers, there were about ten thousand black students and twenty thousand whites in the city...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Blacks and Whites in a rapidly growing city made for a volatile mix of people and sharply conflicting agendas. The size and structure of...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...of modernity. To Historicize the Gay Bar The origins of San Antonio's two nicknames—Alamo City and Military City, USA—lie in the city's history as a contested colonial space and as...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...estate market, foreclosure, rentals)," City-Data.com, November 28, 2009, http://www.city-data.com/forum/orlando/807347-moving-kissimmee-ks-orlando-sanford-real-2.html. Kissimmee is a city in transition . . . Wikipedia says the Latino pop in Kissimmee is only 40%, I beg...
Deep Ellum Blues
Introduction The railroads made Dallas, Texas into a city, highways made it a Sunbelt city, and DFW Airport made it an international city. Never much known for making things, it...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...John Meigs Collection, no. 83.01, Oklahoma City Historical Society Research Center, Oklahoma City, Ok (hereafter OCHS). The federal records pertinent to the Running Waters Council are in 25th Cong., 2nd...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...Orleanians think spatially about their city. The New Orleans Planning Districts map roughly corresponds to popular designations of city geography. The titles for these planning districts are used for the...