A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...considerations would impact the vote. Indeed, it's hard to imagine otherwise.5MARTA first went before voters in 1968 when it was defeated in the city of Atlanta and Fulton and DeKalb...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...John Tinney, who seems to have been his brother. In 1881 Dennis Tinney is listed as a laborer in the Pension Office, Department of Interior. In 1871, John Tinney is...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...con-suetudinario y memoria: práctica jurídica y costumbre en Castilla y León (siglos XI–XIV) (Madrid: Universidad Carlos III, 2012); Yanna Yannakakis, The Art of Being In-Between: Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity and...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...inducted into the US Army and served overseas in World War I until mid-1919.11Army separation application #272507 (22 November 1919), Arthur Middleton. In the 1920 census he is living apart...
The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks
...O’Leary, 277. This sense of isolation is also represented in Ruth’s archival materials, for instance, in two poems she wrote in the early 1990s, “Shades of Black” and “THIRTYONE.” In...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...time it was owned by Providence Life and Accident Insurance Co. until it was sold to Asian investors and transformed into the Great Mall of China. In 1998, Florida-based Sembler...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...Write about us as if we were interconnected, as if what happens in the coalfields impacts you, and as if we mattered. Because it does, and we do. The essay...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...growing tourism business. In Knoxville, the Mid-Day Merry-Go-Round ended in 1961 and the Tennessee Barn Dance, though broadcast in various forms into the 70s, lost much of its appeal and...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...broadly conceived program. I talked with interdisciplinary faculty and, whenever possible, hired bright project personnel who were themselves scholars. I was interested in how media innovations affect the way we...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...world"), partly optimistic ("You never know").32Weathers, Shitkickers, 39. Here, in a story set in the 1960s but self-published in 1987, Weathers invokes the Women in Print Movement, in which she...