Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...broadly conceived program. I talked with interdisciplinary faculty and, whenever possible, hired bright project personnel who were themselves scholars. I was interested in how media innovations affect the way we...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...in operation. Animation by Steve Bransford and Brian Riedel, 2020. Dataset by Brian Riedel, 2015. ArcGIS map by Stephanie Bryan and Brian Riedel, 2020. That animation suggests several phases to...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...from El Salvador, came to live with us in our house on the farm and a second refugee came from the town of Jacaltenango, Guatemala. El Sol Neighborhood Resource Center...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...of elite enslavers and to embrace free labor.15The antislavery pamphlet, "An Address to the Citizens of South Carolina," by "Brutus" circulated in the 1849 campaign (and was actually found with...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860–1865 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999), 707. When Hood's battered army regrouped and threatened the Union's railroad supply line between Chattanooga...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...to the downtown was apparent. Eleventh Street is one of only two downtown streets that bridge I-35, the physical barrier between minority and Anglo neighborhoods since its completion in 1962....
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
..."the shifting element" made up 56 percent of the workforce, and only 25 percent of southern workers stayed in the same mill for twelve months or longer.29Ethel L. Best, Lost...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...the special and active exchange that occurs between the performance and the audience member[] illustrat[es] the breakdown of division between audience and creative crew."56Machon, Immersive Theatres, 98. The orientation of...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...fathers to sons and in the supposedly free exchange of affectional ties between a male and female of his choice—becomes the mythically revered privilege of a free and freed community"...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...appear on your 'Dance Party'?"42Hazel Jordan, letter to J.D. Lewis (WRAL), May 8, 1966, Lewis Family Papers, folder 140. Fans also felt free to criticize the format of Teenage Frolics....