An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...I wrote got published. I just write them with the idea that I'm putting them together in the best way that I can. I guess I'm kind of a perfectionist...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...States, but its location, Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) in the West Indies, is an important site of slavery and revolution in the African diaspora where plantation slaves experienced barbarous conditions eliciting...
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...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...sugarcane land, once a volatile but powerful economic life-force, is idle and in poor condition. Even with its admirable innovations in sustainable and organic farming, Cuba's domestic agricultural producers cannot...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...listed in the 1848 inventory, so it is possible that their escape attempt was successful.11Perhaps twenty-three-year-old George Boman, mentioned in the 1831 Runaway Ad, is the same person as the...
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...
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...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...the east end of the Plaza is an interesting landmark of antebellum days. Built in 1840." A later version was amended to include on the reverse, "It was used as...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...Rasmussen back in 1978 and he appreciated the work that I did in that era when I was active in not only helping miners but also advocating improvements in state...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...business claps its hands in satisfaction. What I'm thinking is what about—what about—what about— What about McWane Inc. in Birmingham, major manufacturer of cast-iron pipes, one of the country's worst...