"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...into the modern era by the cheap electricity and federal intervention of the New Deal's Tennessee Valley Authority. (There are two TVA songs in the Truckers catalogues.)2The two songs are...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...with the cost of flights and the initial recovery period in a hotel, it was cheaper to do so there than in the United States. Hearing her story, Ash insisted...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...would also allow for the cheaper transportation of fossil fuels, Spears argues that the NO DAPL protests were a great example of "an intersectional grassroots movement linking indigenous rights, climate...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
Greetings from Austin Greetings From Austin, Capitol of Texas. Photograph by Flickr user mirsasha (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). In July of 2011 Bon Appétit named Franklin Barbecue of Austin, Texas, the...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...perhaps the experience of total darkness is "only claptrap after all"—an underground version of some cheap carnival gimmick. After Nick leaves him alone, Fawcett describes visions before him, those "subjective...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...Texas. . . . We deserve the freedom to make our own laws, and we deserve not to be insulted by a Justice Department committed to scoring cheap political points."18Charlie...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...were few established businesses, mainstream organizations or tradition-minded civic leaders around. There were, however, plenty of cheap rental properties available and an "anything is possible" view of the future.6According to...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...gardens, for the much cheaper single main building which housed all types of patients together, poorly constructed and badly ventilated. And much like Dr. Galt at Eastern Asylum in Virginia,...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...creates and manifests the fashion designer facet of his identity: "I forgot how good it feels to actually create . . . This cheap roll of duct tape is giving...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...importunes you to the point of rage to buy cheap candy, Coca-Cola, and worthless, if not vulgar, books." Segregated waiting room at Union Station railroad depot, Jacksonville, Florida, 1921. Photograph...