St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...Highway A1A. A central public plaza was part of the colonial city plan, in accordance with King Phillip II's Spanish Royal Ordinance of 1573 mandating an official plan for all...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...can do better than that. They can make their representatives justify the trust placed in them. They can demand more of their government. They can assert a right to land...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...that has given solid footing to African American literature and theory, and the emergence of postcolonial, transnational, and other multicultural critical discourses — in light of these events, Eliot's dream...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...a land of multiracial social progress, the regional identity versus a national one, the national interest versus the international, amateur athletes versus professional ones, the integrity of the Olympic Movement's...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...theaters. In addition to technical requirements and internal spatial organization, Hollingshead's theater set a precedent for geographic location. Like the Automobile Movie Theater, located just outside Camden and just over...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...the street is provided for each compartment."20The General Code of the City of Birmingham, Alabama, of 1930: (Includes All Ordinances of a General and Permanent Nature except as Specified in...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...where Africans first arrived in North America, is neither the actual place of Africans' first arrival in Virginia (Point Comfort, Hampton, Virginia, is the actual site) or in North America...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Regional History (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001), 4. For all its sensitivity to spatial and temporal variation, the literature on white-on-black violence has emphasized the American South. Although whites brutalized African...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...its people, revealing the impact of deindustrialisation, rural poverty, and environmental destruction. Ann Pancake, Seattle, Washington, 2014. Photograph by Catherine Alexander. Courtesy of the author. Published by the University Press...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Festival in Athens, the Canadian Folk Festival, and the Alabama Folk Festival in Montgomery. These days Bryant plays mainly at home, with an occasional show in Columbus or Atlanta. To...