An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...Clearing and on a Mississippi River entertainment steamboat in The Missing. After drafting a volume on Tim Gautreaux for the "Understanding Contemporary American Writers" series published by the University of...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...cities, Atlanta, along with Tampa, Miami-Dade, and Memphis, still boasts a drive-in within city limits, something few US cities can claim. Located in southeast Atlanta on Moreland Avenue, two miles...
Encountering COVID
...and go down to see who needed help with breakfast. I might be feeding a member, I might be cooking in the kitchen, I might be just engaging with members...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...International, the busiest passenger airport in the world.7Jane Roberts, "Catch the Taxiway," Memphis Commercial Appeal, June 26, 2006, A1. Michael Gallis and Associates, FedEx and Northwest Airlines Routes, 2008. Less...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...He pointed them toward me because my dissertation was on the Texas borderlands. I approached them with an idea for a project that became the Texas Slavery Project because I...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...the Blue Valley Boys, late 1960s. The collection of L.C. Edwards and the Tennessee State Library and Archives. Tennessee Jamboree, Blue Valley Boys, mid-1960s. Starting in the mid-1920s, the barn...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...grandchildren being told that their grandmother—how does Wade put it?—was "technically speaking their grandfather." That trans grandparent coming out to her grandchildren—being helped along with photo albums that visualize her...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...of migration. An estimated two million Mexican farmers and farm workers lost their livelihoods as cheap US agricultural products, especially corn, flooded Mexican markets.14Monica Campbell and Tyche Hendricks, “Mexico's Corn...
Enchanting the Desert: Visualizing the Production of Space at the Grand Canyon
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Nicholas Bauch is assistant professor of GeoHumanities and director of the Experimental Geography Studio at the University of Oklahoma. In addition to...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...of Texas, Captain Phillip Dimmitt's Goliad Insurrection, James Long's Second Republic of Texas, Mexico, the First Republic of Texas, France, and Spain. Mexico might seem an unlikely destination for defeated Confederates,...