North Carolina: A State of Shock
...Unemployment Benefits," Charlotte Observer, June 30, 2013, http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/06/30/4137390/north-carolina-will-become-first.html. But the centerpiece of the GOP's program was a tax cut that the North Carolina Budget and Tax Center estimated would eventually...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...sided with the Confederacy. There were a disproportionate number of Creek leaders who had close ties to the Deep South: economic relationships, cultural influences, and, to some degree, plantation systems....
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...New Orleans launched more than one "muggles drive" and declared "war on dealers in marijuana."3For examples of these enforcement measures, see "Cops Make First Marihuana Raids," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), June...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...petrochemical production: unlimited river water for cooling and processing; salty brine necessary for the production of chlorine; cavernous salt domes; and oil and natural gas deposits under the seabed's surface....
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...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...was honored with the Grand Prize of ArtFields in Lake City, South Carolina. From June 2–27, 2020, his work was on display in “Eros, C’est la Vie,” a show “celebrating...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...is more recently formed and dynamically shifting. Modern ecosystems include extensive salt marshes with tidal creeks, beaches, maritime forests, back-dune meadows, grasslands, and a few human-made freshwater ponds. Erosion occasionally...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...Inman Park, and Lake Claire. Charis is now one of the oldest feminist bookstores in the country, and its history is intertwined with the histories not only of the feminist...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...Guatemala. And while men still make up the majority of Maya migrants, a growing number of women and children have joined husbands, fathers, and brothers in Georgia, resulting in a...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...(June 2010): 733-765; "A Resolution to encourage Enlistments and to promote the Efficiency of the military Forces of the United States," Bills and Resolutions, U.S. Senate, S.R. 82, 38th Congress,...