A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...million dollars, and spent widely on mailers, door-to-door canvassing, phone banks and television ad buys. The leading opposition group, the Transportation Leadership Coalition, made do with little more than $14,000...
Editorial Style Guide
...are usually used. number of international unions 8; total number of women: 79 When to spell out numbers Spell out numbers from one through one hundred and approximate numbers. It...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
Queer [__] Revolution? "The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it." —James Baldwin "The gay revolution began as a literary revolution." This is the first...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...the international struggle between free and bound systems of labor To combat the abolitionist threat, US slavers invested their energy and resources in an unlikely place: the navy. In what...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...of the Great Depression—just as the PHS dismantled a number of pilot projects designed to provide mass treatment to syphilitic blacks. Although many of the initiatives undertaken in Hot Springs...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...station in Milwaukee as FCC regulations required multiple broadcast owners to divest from one license in order to buy another. Unable to find a buyer for WVUE, Storer turned the station...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...“Liminal Legality”; James Smith,“Guatemala: Economic Migrants Replace Political Refugees” Migration Policy Institute, Migration Information Source (April 2006) http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/guatemala-economic-migrants-replace-political-refugees/. This first wave of migrants from war-torn Guatemala initially settled in Los...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...people found out when posters went up for "Pylon's Last Show" with opening act Love Tractor. The gig took place in a huge venue known more for its cheap drink...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...and create ways to live in a particular place, a process that included imagination and adaptation as well as habitation. Paulett finds that the geography of place varied with those...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...to before the exploitation of the coal seams. People often ask, how could this happen? How could one of the most minerally rich places be populated by some of the...