History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...from "pedestrian, unpretentious, and utterly unexceptional" (21) origins as Rue Bourbon in the eighteenth century to its present-day renown as "a signature street, one that [speaks] on behalf of the...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...with a simulated newsreel. This particular example celebrates Bronzeville, a name coined to describe the vitality of Chicago’s South Side in its heyday during the 1930s and ‘40s. The “newsreel”...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...John Frank and Rob Christensen, "Dome: In other news, NC Senate gives final approval to tax bill," Raleigh News and Observer, July 3, 2013, http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/07/03/3009073/dome-in-other-news-nc-senate-gives.html; John Frank, "Impact of Proposed...
Religion and the US South
...myriad of denominational forms, evangelical Protestantism has served as an unofficially established religious tradition, powerful in worldly resources, institutional reach, moral authority, and cultural hegemony. Demographics was as fundamental as...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...and mortality. Music video director Mark Romanek had long pleaded with his friend Rick Rubin to be allowed to direct a video for one of Cash's new songs, but it...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...to justice. The world then lost track of Northup, as the date, place, and manner of his death remain unknown. Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup, 2013. © FoxSearchlight. Like McQueen's...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...allusions to nineteenth century weird fiction, Nietzsche, and M-theory during the run of the show. Before moving to Louisiana to work homicide, Rust spent too long deep undercover in vice,...
Iconoclasm and the Confederacy: The Challenge of White Supremacy in the Memorial Landscape
Presentation Responses About the Speakers Kirk Savage is a professor of art history and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. He has written extensively on public monuments within the theoretical context...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...systems throughout the country would be affected by the historic ruling. It could be persuasively argued that Brown was the most important legal principle to be shaped by the Supreme...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
..."danger spot" of the world, she denounced these fertile nations as "destroyers of our civilization through their ruthless method of waging arrogant warfare against innocent, peaceful peoples."5"News from Margaret Sanger,"...