Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
Review Christopher J. Manganiello opens Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region with a discussion of the drought that hit the...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...men Gilmer consulted about the number of companies and their placement. James Gamble to George R. Gilmer, March 16, 1838, "Cherokee Removal Letters," www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gachatto/corr/cherokee.htm; Thomas G. MacFarland to George R....
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...place evokes and that help constitute it.14Tim Cresswell, Place: A Short Introduction (London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2004), 169. More than just feelings or emotions, such sense of place encompasses perceptions, assumptions, and...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...2008. Photograph by and courtesy of Kwesi DeGraft-Hanson. Place reverberates with the history of its unique past. "Place stays, not only in Rememory," writes Toni Morrison, "but out there in...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...Delery-Edwards describes the Lounge as a cultural space that sought to insulate patrons from homophobic violence, what Vernon would imagine in a musical number, "The World Outside These Walls."11Max Vernon,...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...as much attention as battle facts. Gone with the Wind, for instance, as a bestselling novel and blockbuster movie has shaped popular perception of the Civil War more than the...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...and similarly split districts in surrounding Davidson County, under Superintendent J. E. Moss. In round numbers, there were about ten thousand black students and twenty thousand whites in the city...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...Bailey K. Ashford immortalized his first hookworm patients in a photograph. The caption reads: "Photograph of a number of natives of Puerto Rico, showing pernicious anemia due to Ankylostoma duodenale."...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...rights struggle more than those that took place in the spring and early summer of 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama, and Danville, Virginia. In both places newspaper and television played important...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...Blue Valley Boys newspaper advertisement, LaFollette, Tennessee, late 1960s. In this essay I place the Tennessee Jamboree within several contexts, organized toward a progressive narrowing of focus. I will start with...