The Cobb County Braves
...the new stadium will follow a current trend in stadium development in the United States. As teams build new ballparks with smaller capacities, ticket prices rise as demand increases. Furthermore,...
Sea Changes in Personhood
Review While taking its cues from apparently minor literary events and artifacts, Ariel's Ecology: Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics is a major intervention in literary criticism, political...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
Review Photographer unknown, Unidentified miners from southwest Virginia, 1930s. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia. Amid the current wave of anti-immigrant sentiment, numerous US cities and states are reexamining their...
The Bulletin—February 11, 2013
...to wait disproportionately longer to vote in the 2012 Presidential election than people from other areas. Black and Hispanic voters, Democrats and Independents, and those living in cities were three other...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...opportunities for the African American work force, both slave and free, which became enmeshed into a single, somewhat fluid system that operated on both sides of the river. Port cities,...
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...Appalachia Peter West, Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839-1869 David Wharton, Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities Complete list of Environmental Studies pieces: https://southernspaces.org/category/tags/environmental-studies...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...The conversation illuminated Chicana historian Vicki Ruiz’s argument that “region is intricately tied to Latina identity.” With attention to geographic and temporal specificities, Márquez’s Making the Latino South and McNamara’s...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...with many US cities beginning in the late 1960s. Following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., the segregation-era black enclave around U Street was left gutted by rioters, a...
Jackson, Mississippi images
...business district. Mississippi State Fair Held annually in October, the Mississippi State Fair draws visitors from throughout the South. Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton and Southern Spaces...
Article praising Ponce de Leon's appearance
...find relief from the din and confusion of the city, during the long, hot summer. When the gates of the park are opened wide for the thousands of visitors they...