Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...through the addition of a music room (equipped with a piano) and a ladies' reception room.17"A Born Genius," Atlanta Constitution, (August 31, 1890): 8. In a history of the roller coaster,...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...the company instead finds itself in the dual role of protector of jobs and robber baron of the land. In Stage Three, the final stage, massive buyouts of homeowners and...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...on Anglos in Mexico fueled anti-Mexican sentiment in the United States. In November 1910, an Anglo mob in Rocksprings, Texas, stormed the jail and seized Antonio Rodríguez. Claiming that the...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...5, 19. Doesticks described the buyers as "generally of a rough breed, slangy, profane and bearish," including some "fast young men," "rough backwood rowdies" and also "[w]hite neck-clothed, gold-spectacled, and...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...an interview on American Routes, Parton talks about her musical and family roots in East Tennessee, and about singing on the Cas Walker Show. Available via http://americanroutes.wwno.org/. WLAF In the 1950s and 1960s LaFollette...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...left Emory to work as a technical product manager in digital media for Turner Broadcasting in 2010. Roundtable participants (top left to bottom right): Frankie Abbott, Mary Battle, Katie Rawson,...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...continue beyond the first half of 2010. From June 2009 through March 2010, the number of jobless workers continued to grow in the South and the West. The number of...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...and the complex relationships between blacks and the land along waterfronts that range from the Potomac Flats in Washington, DC, through the Chesapeake Bay and Hampton Roads, down the Carolina...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...no reliable data on the number of children with special needs enrolled in private schools. A small number were established to serve special needs students, but the vast majority do...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...then up again along the rolling terrain. Puzzling to a newcomer are the words "citizen" and "civilian" on the headstones in what is supposed to be a military cemetery. Yet...