Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Atlanta was voted number two in Fortune's 1995 'Best Cities for Business' list, the city also ranks number two in the nation in income disparity between blacks and whites, number...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...major park to be authorized by the city, City Park was also the last to be built. Here’s the timeline: in 1858, the city received full title to this once-upon-a-time...
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...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), 10. Along with the automobile, telephone, and electricity, radio emerged as a key technological component in the negotiations between rural people and government agencies over...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...Atlanta. As Atlanta's black population grew in the 1950s and 1960s, city officials became concerned about "the prospect of a Negro majority in the city."1In May 1966, "the Atlanta Journal...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...old marketplace, including leasing the site to vendors.79Rosemary Heffernan, "Market Proposal Taken Under Advisement by City Commission" The St. Augustine Record, July 29, 1980. The city's 450th anniversary offers a renewed...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...as a whole, however, provides multiple iterations of this normative structure that break with themselves through multiple, contradictory framings. Even before Horace Kephart's popular depiction of "mountain whites" in Our...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. Her areas of specialization within the field of US history include women and gender, family, migration, and ethnicity. Her research has focused on...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...indicate that the Claxton residents wrote to multiple government agencies, at all levels, across the state and in Washington, DC. But the stretch of highway outside of Claxton was not...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...is the largest city in the state, with a population of approximately 123,000 within city limits and of over 700,000 for the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). Major employers include government,...