Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Illustrated. In his first dispatch, Blount considers the city's homeless population in relation to Five Points, "an area that lies just to the southeast of the Olympic Center but squarely...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
Review Understanding the creation of social spaces in an unfamiliar landscape is, according to Robert Paulett, a productive way to account for eighteenth-century developments in the American Southeast, particularly in...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...the words of art historian Christopher Reed, to leave a "queer mark on the physical environment." They also map a move from figurative representation, through post-minimalist gestures, to shifting moments...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...than 2.4 million extremely poor children—42 percent of the nation's total—lived in the South. Ten of the eleven states in the nation where at least one in every ten children...
Walt Whitman in Alabama
...mayor who bought the ladies' favors with river quartz, maybe east from some trip west to see or returning north from New Orleans or just lost in those years after...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...still finds a "consistent story" that suggests at least 5 percent of American men are "predominately" attracted to other men. Millions of these "gay men," he goes on to say,...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...“My dad is from Prague and my mom from Puerto Rico,” “I am from Jutiapa, El Progresso, Guatemala!” The lists of names and places turn into longer narratives of immigration....
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
Introduction The soil in the Mississippi Delta has everything a planter needs. Rooted in shallow soils, elm, cottonwood, and pecan trees line the hilly landscapes of eastern and southern Mississippi....
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...male. However, since at the least the 1970s, women have worked in the mines, including underground, albeit in small numbers. I use the language of "wives and widows" because most...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...in copyright law. In his blog post on the case, "HathiTrust Wins on Fair Use, and just about everything else," he included the following list of the judge's findings: Digitization to...