Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...1980s, Austin was in a prime position to prosper. Tretter explains this process using David Harvey’s “tertiary circuit of capital,” in which “the growing significance of technological and knowledge-rent seeking” increasingly...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...from the first murmurs of dissension sparked by Abraham Lincoln's election through the "storm of cheers" that greeted the signing of the Ordinance of Secession in November 1860 to the...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...Not only does Dubcovsky illuminate the significance of communication networks to the emergence of an early South, she does so in a way that highlights indigenous power where it is...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...no. 377, Records of the Office of the Comptroller of Currency, National Archives, Record Group 101, microcopy 816: Registers of Signatures of Depositors in Branches of the Freedmen's Savings and...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
Review I remember well seeing Charles Moore's fire hose photographs from Birmingham in my hometown newspaper, the Louisville Courier-Journal. Six-years old in 1963, I had little understanding of the day's...
And the Prize Goes to...
...skills for critical reading and reflecting. For the rest of the course, to highlight best practices for the study of the South, we considered approach, research design, genealogy of scholarship, and...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...that the most significant change between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries was a shift from a political economy based on maize surplus, which in turn created hierarchical relations between villages...
The Bulletin—April 3, 2013
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. Some important William Faulkner archival material is going up for auction in New York. Considered one of the most significant literary figures...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...The implications of this trend are far-reaching. It indicates persisting economic hardship for a large number of families with school-age children, signaling that children who usually have the largest educational...
The Bulletin—November 1, 2012
...to get "souls to the polls" were energized by the decision to eliminate six days of early voting which was legislated by the Republican State Legislature and signed into law...