History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...previous studies on the environmental, topographical, and social conditions that shaped the early cityscape from the French colonial period to the antebellum era. As part of the original urban core,...
The Liminal Site
...we are renters. In front of our home extends a suburban landscape of half–century-old houses. There is not a front porch in my entire neighborhood; whether despite or because of...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...a manufacturing site. Ben Hains, Old Saltpeter Pipes, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, 1812, 1889. As Mammoth Cave was valued for its economic inutility, visitors also cherished the escape it offered from political...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...had come to an abandoned wasteland. The desolation of this landscape must have presented a sore disappointment. The large indigenous populations, and their precious metals and labor, encountered by Spaniards...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...of the traditional order was always beneficial, but he believed that it fell under the weight of its own corruption. Suggs' victory and escape showed the inability of coercion and...
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...River and marked the western boundary of Georgia. Eyeing the landscape, Hargrove exclaimed, "This would make a splendid site for a town!" An approaching stranger, Major Philip Walker Hemphill, overheard...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...workers find the landscape shifting beneath their feet overnight, nor a tragic triumph over nature. Instead, Theriot focuses on how the fluid landscape afforded and constrained different kinds of innovations,...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...Walker Evans, see William Stott, "Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and the Landscape of Disassociation," Arts Canada 31 (December 1974) and Leslie Baier, "Visions of Fascination and Despair: The Relationship Between Walker Evans...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...relationships in particular places to income, education, landscape, and health disparities. Rust is a Texan, a detail that is constantly used to justify his utter strangeness, to portray him as...