Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...exploited until the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when the railroads entered the coal rich areas of Central Appalachia. With the natural resources owned by outside interests, the riches...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...and they couldn't catch me. I was in the army in Guatemala, so I had a compass. I took a train through Mexico. I swam across the Rio Grande. I...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...River Parade in April of 1941. Throughout the forties and fifties, the River Walk featured a small sampling of restaurants, shops, and boating activities that drew in a fair number...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...make them go crazy wild."1David F. Musto, "The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937," Archives of General Psychiatry 26, no. 2 (February 1972): 102. For more on Dowling, see Richard J....
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...Greater interest in New Orleans rap and bounce post-Katrina, with increased attention to the musical styles' connections to the city's rich history of African American expressive culture,5Matt Miller, Bounce: Rap...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...registered their marriage in Richmond County were born west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Interactive Map Those married in western counties not only were more likely to have migrated, but...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...counties combined (250,885). The numbers of African American residents in "diversifying" Fayette, northern Fulton, and Gwinnett counties each approximately doubled over the course of the decade; the numbers in Henry...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...wall to our right that separates this hallowed ground from the Marine Corps Memorial, popularly known as the Iwo Jima Monument. This is a silent corner of the cemetery, far...
Religion and the US South
...Episcopal Church, ca. 1876. Lithograph of Richard Allen and other A.M.E bishops by J.H. Daniels. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/pictures/resource/pga.03643/. A consideration of the...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...on Kentucky folk singer Jean Ritchie’s remembrance of an Old Regular Baptist drone in the liner notes to her LP Sweet Rivers.) In Hoboken, for example, drones today are more...