Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...the United States: the Santa Rita Courts designated for Latinos. Chalmers Court for whites and Rosewood Courts for blacks were similarly built in largely segregated neighborhoods.32Austin completed the first federally-funded...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...would require an environmental impact statement (EIS) on the likely ecological impact as well as alternative proposals—say, fewer units, fewer trees destroyed, or substitute drainage plans. Developers and the permitting...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...mapped onto an entire people. Pamini, for example, was a female Yspo leader who lived near Santa Catalina in the early 1670s. We know very little about the Yspo—they were...
The Shenandoah Valley
...turns out, was most pronounced where economic development forces were the strongest. Railroads, industrial enterprises, cash crop agriculture, businesses and institutions fed and were fed by slavery. Just as significant...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...Atlanta cyclorama painting is a striking visual spectacle. The huge, circular panorama—371 feet long and 49 feet high—displays in vivid, you-are-there style one of the biggest clashes fought in the...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...our bones but as a space that we can enter into, encounter, move around in, inhabit, be safe in, learn from." Kun, Audiotopia, 2. "If my own feelings are constantly...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...years later spit out a feminist and anti-racist scholar determined to live her life as art. Along the way, I waited tables and catered, made rugs and wall-hangings out of...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...you in Vietnam? GAUTREAUX: I was going to join the Air Force, but they had that draft lottery, and I drew number 361. Number one went, and the further away...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...tourism articles for Examiner.com. As St. Augustine prepares for its 450th anniversary in 2015, government and civic organizations are planning projects, festivals, and events. The presidentially appointed "Federal Commission" of...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...many records have simply not survived into the present. This book accounts for small numbers (fewer than thirty). However, all told, there were an additional forty-two Indian children living in...