Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...reconstruct Bishop and other cave guides as avatars of slave self-empowerment. While these historical figures found ways of confusing the behavioral codes of slavery in their everyday interactions with cave...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...as the place where a sleeping homeless woman tumbled off a seawall and lost her arm to an alligator. Such are the long string of anecdotes—the stories of drug runners...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...and tuning in to programming from the many large stations.13Ibid, 132-133. Radio's big-city bias changed after World War II. Eager to promote the growth of the medium, the FCC declared...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...(June 2010): 733-765; "A Resolution to encourage Enlistments and to promote the Efficiency of the military Forces of the United States," Bills and Resolutions, U.S. Senate, S.R. 82, 38th Congress,...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...(103). This multi-media interplay is a relatively new convention for academic writing. Here, old-school New Historicist methods comingle with explications of computer code and user interface to demonstrate how digital...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...there as volunteers.3The term is taken from what is arguably the most-cited manifesto of lesbian feminism, "Women Identified Woman," written by the Radicalesbians, first distributed as a "position paper" at...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...the city because, according to a woman Sibley knew, "'Hit's too fur to walk and cars jiggle you so bad.'"13Sibley, A Place Called Sweet Apple, 57-58; Sibley, Tokens of Myself, 15. (This...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...woman by the name of Sib for 1836 and to give notes for the hire of the negroes ordered to be hired for the present year and the following rates,...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...and presented it to her own child—likely a daughter. Ashley's child then must have passed the sack onto her (or his) daughter, the woman identified as Ruth Middleton. In 1921,...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...arrest them for homosexual behavior. When the cops entered the bar, "they would," according to Weathers, "go around the room looking for a woman's hand on another woman's knee" or...