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...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...stops and bike lanes and widen streets to promote public transportation. The most symbolic public spot in the corridor is Urdy Plaza, an open, art-decorated space that honors the African...
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...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...centers on an American Indian who kneels before an enthroned Minerva—Roman goddess of wisdom, warfare, arts, trade, strategy, and commerce—and proffers a partially unscrolled map. Scenes of indigenous people offering...
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...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...to a "hemispheric south" where planters and railroad promoters envisioned business and trade networks across the Mexican borderlands and into Latin America during the last third of the nineteenth century...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...and litigants puzzled out enslaved people's rights of access to autonomy, property, and family, case by case. Would a woman who had purchased her freedom while pregnant give birth to...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Indiana in 1930, James H. Madison marshals considerable evidence to suggest that racism and racist violence have been central themes in Indiana's history. Yet, in his analysis, he remains committed...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...and the Second Seminole War erupted in 1835.4Jerald Milanich, Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995). Spanish settlers in St. Augustine owned some of...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...Tashkent. In all, 130 companies from seventeen countries participated, among them Austria, Belgium, Great Britain, Germany, India, Italy, Russia, the United States, Turkey, Switzerland, France, the Czech Republic, South Korea,...