Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...of Illinois Press, 1997); Bruce Hevly and John Findlay, eds., The Atomic West (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998); John Findlay and Bruce Hevly, Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...Studies 45, no. 12 (2008): 2385–2405; Neil Smith, The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City (London: Routledge, 1996). Poorer minorities are more vulnerable to rent hikes and increased...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
Introduction At high noon, Nashville time, on Monday, May 17, 1954, all nine justices of the United States Supreme Court in Washington joined in a declaration that legally-sanctioned racial segregation...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...particular place can only produce a limited number of marketable artists) and, to a lesser degree, speculative exploration (that going to obscure places might yield a novel interpretation of the...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...writers like Will Wallace Harney and William Goodell Frost in the late nineteenth century, song collectors like Cecil Sharp in the 1910s, and by members of the Popular Front in...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...Famous Last Names, 2009 Susan Harbage Page and Juan Logan Photographs, tarpaper, historical frames Susan Harbage Page and Juan Logan, Portrait from Famous Last Names, Charleston, South Carolina,...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...a captured copy of the 1915 Plan de San Diego revealed Carranza adherents' intent to use a series of violent uprisings to regain territory in the old Spanish Southwest (Texas,...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...38:27, https://soundcloud.com/about-south/s02-episode-3-gilded-souths-and-s-towns. "A Treasure of Incalculable Value Lay Gleaming Before Us," Boston, MA, 1899. Frontispiece by J.W. Kennedy. Originally published in Edgar Allen Poe's "The Gold-Bug" (D. Estes and Company,...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...turns out, the transfer of McDonald's son to Dinsmoor's care was not unique. In the decades following the US Revolution, a number of American Indian women and men and elite US whites...
Whiskey and Geography
...can credit the Ulster immigrants for helping introduce the tradition to America. Through their influence, whiskey making became commonplace everywhere in the new colony, particularly on the frontier. Frenchman Marquis...