Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...mass-cultural melting pots. However, the transition from exclusive leisure spot to all-inclusive wonderland often did not happened as quickly, or as easily, or at all. Print advertisement for Lakewood Park,...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...as Hearing the Call attests, she possesses multi-generational knowledge about community genealogies predating Creek Removal from ancestral homelands in Alabama and Georgia in 1836 as well as a command of specific family...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
Introduction Letcher County Judge, Carroll Smith, visits with local resident loading house coal. Letcher County, KY, 2005. Taking pictures in conjunction with Volunteers In Service To America (1968-1970), then continuing...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...singing tradition centered in Hoboken, Brantley County, Georgia. This is not a term local singers from the region use to describe their tradition, although—as described in this essay—some local singers...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...social Darwinism and racial degeneration.28Abraham L. Wolbarst, "The Venereal Diseases: A Menace to the National Welfare," Medical Review 62 (1913): 327–80. Reformers clamored for an attack on prostitution, artists luridly...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...throughout the Americas, having African antecedents, and transmitted by enslaved and free people across the generations.11Jamieson, Ross W., "Material Culture and Social Death: African-American Burial Practices," Historical Archaeology 29 (1995):...
Remnants of Flannery
...portrait of O'Connor as a dog, chose more radical methods and images to represent her. Hatfield states that she was attracted to the happenstance mix of "reverent, more traditional portraiture...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...visual and spatial domains of digital life—has expanded the definitional dimensions of what we mean when we say textual, rhetorical, spatial, and visual, many of the relational and affective dimensions...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...of which—along with other notable musicians—brought new attention in national and international press to New Orleans’ cultural revival as a sign of larger material, social, and economic recovery. The same...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...from Bringing Down the Mountains The most divisive and controversial environmental issue facing Central Appalachia today is mountaintop removal surface coal mining. Obtaining coal by mountaintop removal (MTR) obliterates Appalachian...