Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...edges. Later, this north-south transportation corridor intricately linked ports of trade, towns and small cities, plantation houses, ferries, small barges, and steamboats. After oil was discovered in Texas in 1901,...
Eskridge newspaper
Eskridge Star. Untitled. July 13, 1899. "We are opposed to mob law: Our civilization is too far advanced for such business: We live too far north for that kind of...
Anniversary
...York reads the poem "Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road." Poem text. About Jake Adam York Raised near Gadsden in northeast Alabama by his steelworker father and his mother,...
Gravestones in Chester County, South Carolina and Wythe County, Virginia
...Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, Virginia, August 1978. From Daniel Patterson, The True Image (read an essay excerpted from the book). Used with permission of the University of North Carolina Press....
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...bombs over the Spanish Andalucían coast near the town of Palomares. The Soviet Union-bound test run had taken off from Goldsboro, North Carolina, and the limited cleanup operation buried contaminated...
The Bulletin—April 24, 2013
...if they agree to relocation. On March 29, Exxon-Mobil's sixty-five-year-old Pegasus pipeline burst in Mayflower, Arkansas. The town, which lies twenty-five miles northwest of Little Rock, was inundated with an estimated 210,000...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...ever more clear. Brown University, the College of William and Mary, Harvard University, Emory University, the University of Maryland, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker S. Wright Kennedy is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Rice University. His primary area of interest is the integration...
The Cobb County Braves
...When the lease on the team's current home at Turner Field expires in 2016, the Braves will move to a new ballpark at the northwest intersection of I-75 and I-285...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...2009. The city of Anniston in northeast Alabama (population 24,276 in 2000), once the state's fourth largest city, now ranks twelfth in the state. Racial strife is only one antecedent...