Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...parks offered sheltered docks and piers, the only dock here is a burnt out stub. The city clears and maintains lakes in other parts of the city, opening code-compliant "windows"...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2013&BillID=H937. There was also red meat for religious conservatives. During his 2012 campaign for governor, former Charlotte mayor Pat McCrory had promised to concentrate on promoting jobs while avoiding divisive...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...of the Atlanta painting, and promoters moved each canvas from city to city for exhibition. At every stop, riggers installed the panorama in a massive rotunda building, a specially designed...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...On March 26, 1974, approximately eight-thousand spectators filled the University of Southwestern Louisiana's basketball arena, the Blackham Coliseum, to hear some of the most popular artists of the region's dancehall...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...(reductively) something like this: for decades after the Civil War, the South was a "Sahara of the Bozart," devoid of anything resembling "high" culture, until the arrival of native (white)...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...reconstruct Bishop and other cave guides as avatars of slave self-empowerment. While these historical figures found ways of confusing the behavioral codes of slavery in their everyday interactions with cave...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
A General Note to Readers: I have intended this essay to be read and the films viewed together. Rather than narrate the films, I have presented an analysis of them...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...and (5) global mobility of people, goods, and services (e.g., linking local resources and interests to national markets). D. Western, "Human-modified ecosystems and future evolution," Proceedings of the National Academy...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...African Americans. As Eugene H. Berwanger has illustrated, "a large group of settlers was more anti-Negro than antislavery."11Eugene H. Berwanger, The Frontier Against Slavery: Western Anti-Negro Prejudice and the Slavery Extension...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...and tuning in to programming from the many large stations.13Ibid, 132-133. Radio's big-city bias changed after World War II. Eager to promote the growth of the medium, the FCC declared...