A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...in American Public Schools: Rapidly Resegregating School Districts (Cambridge: Harvard University, 2002), 6–7. When coupled with their spending advantage, evidence indicating newfound support for transit must have given the measure's...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...named Rose, valued at $700. The full listing reads: Slave Cicero 1,000, slave Sophia 300, slave Jane 400 Slave Jack 800, slave Rose 700, slave David 800, old woman 100...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...elements, not just as reference points of cited works supporting an argument, but as part of the scholarship itself.3Charles Reagan Wilson, "A Scholar's Perspective on AmericanSouth.Org," in Halbert, ed., Workshop...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
..."listener" of complex national, regional, and local identifications has been a central, contested issue in radio scholarship. Susan Douglas describes the condition: [Radio's] technologically produced aurality allowed listeners to reformulate...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...2016 [1995]); Stuart Schwartz, Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992), chapters 2 and 3; David Wheat, Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570–1640...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...manumission record from Charles Teney. We do not see subsequent records of her. In 1832, Pompey Tinney is listed as a manager of the Sunday School of the Meeting House, a...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...past and the resilience of community. "Break[ing] That School In" Virginia began high school at South Cobb High, a formerly all-white high school which was already desegregating.8Until the county schools...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...and Schenectady, New York. When Major General William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta in 1864, one estimate numbered the city's population at just thirty-five hundred residents. In the aftermath of the...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...area and to the vast number of absentee landowners. Natural resource identification, mapping, and purchasing occurred as early as the eighteenth century, but these absentee holdings could not be fully...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...and geographically scattered day laboring population in Atlanta.Because of the sheer number of day labor positions and the diversity of methods for procuring employment, some contingent workers called Atlanta "day...