Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
Essay Canal Street, Separating the Old from the New City, from the WPA Guide to New Orleans. Reminders of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal are hard to miss in many American...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...1680–1920 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996), 1–2, 10, 12. For a discussion of industrialism in the "New South," see C. Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South (Baton Rouge:...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...Landscape and Language among the Western Apache (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996). Yet it was not until 2008 that the city of Savannah and the Georgia Historical Society placed...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...special ceremony, a new Maya princess was crowned and greeted by the crowd. This Maya Catholic celebration was an unusual sight in Cherokee County, a predominantly white, Protestant locale about...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...in America and the world. Masahiro Sumori, Congo Square today, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2006. Sculptural tributes to New Orleans musical history greats are scattered throughout the park, most of them...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...1981);Young'uns: A Celebration (New York: Harper & Row, 1982); her memoir, Turned Funny; six mysteries, The Malignant Heart (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958), Ah, Sweet Mystery: A Kate Mulcay Mystery (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), Straight as an...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...of a barn dance. After World War II, as hundreds of new radio stations began to broadcast from small towns, a new wave of barn dance programs emerged, fashioned after...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...the park cut off an irrigation line, however, the newly planted trees dried up and died. This story is nothing new. Landscape theorist Anne Whiston Spirn recounts similar frustrations with...
Reuse, Author Choice, and the Open Access Spectrum: New Creative Commons Licenses for Southern Spaces Authors
...greatest opportunity for reuse. Under a CC BY-ND (attribution, no derivatives) license, users are free to copy, display, distribute, or perform the original work with attribution. Users may not make...
When the Border Crossed Me
...afternoon I walked out of my farm field to meet five men from Mexico. They drove into my driveway in an old beat up blue Impala, got out in the...