Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
Photograph of Rosa, Miguel and their son. Global Lives, Local Struggles (Documentary footage used in this essay was provided by William Brown, Director, Living Across Borders.) Part 2: Dr. Odem describes...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...to test cheap and easy methods of contraception, such as spermicidal jelly and foam powder, among women in remote areas in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee in the 1930s. In...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...is the author of Crescent Rivers: Waterways of Florida's Big Bend (University Press of Florida, 1998). He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in photography, three Individual Artist Fellowships...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...éxodo de las clases media y alta, que en su mayor parte aterrizaron en el sur de Florida y se quedaron. Después del Éxodo Mariel, la política de inmigración estadounidense...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
Georgia, 1831. Map by Young & Delleker, Sc. Published by A. Finley. Courtesy of the Historic Maps collection, Georgia Archives, University System of Georgia. Georgia led the United States in the expulsion...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...you ain't. About the Author Margaret D. Bauer, author of The Fiction of Ellen Gilchrist (University Press of Florida, 1999) and William Faulkner's Legacy: "what shadow, what stain, what mark" (University Press of Florida,...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...on the creative class, see Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class: And how it's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life (New York: Basic Books, 2002). The city...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...John Armistead's beech grove two miles east of town. With the filling-in of Yancey Springs to make way for the Air-Line Railroad in 1868, Atlantans looked to Armistead's springs to...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...Southernmost Currents: Liminal Narratives of Love in the Florida Straits, reads south Florida as a zone of confluence for various queer figures in the latter half of the twentieth century....
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...the shape-note tradition was somewhat late spreading. The Cooper book is used especially in western Florida and the lower regions of Alabama and Mississippi, as well as in parts of...