Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...Rabinovitz describes the early twentieth-century amusement park as "an Erector-set world of mechanical thrill rides, shows of human and animal oddities, saloons and swimming pools, beer gardens and ballrooms, restaurants...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...leftover tracts of land. No less engrossing is their history. According to Lake Douglas, author of Public Spaces, Private Gardens: A History of Designed Landscapes in New Orleans, and a...
Modeling the Marie-Séraphique: A Ship of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Modeling the Marie-Séraphique The Marie-Séraphique Video Permissions Creative Commons license CC-BY-ND To inquire about use permissions for all or part of these videos, contact Southern Spaces at seditor@emory.edu....
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...suffered from "mismanagement, underfunding, poor design, and civic neglect" (1). New Deal Ruins reminds—or informs—us that tenants were well aware of and attentive to these problems. They also knew that...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1997), 302; Mark Harrison, Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013),...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...Dalmo'ma, see Michael Daley, "Running on Empty," Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press, http://pleasureboatstudio.com/Books/Running_on_Empty.html. Soon after I arrived in Port Townsend, I discovered the Imprint Bookstore. A place like Imprint...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...the evocative line--“this reenactment. . . lets us hold on. We’re holding on to those who can’t be held”--as she was cradling the doll in her arms. Ellen Schattschneider, Doll...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...in higher education in the US, namely Ohio State University, Bowdoin College, and NYU's Institute for the Humanities, before he died alone as a poet in residence at Auburn University,...
Editors
...State University Anne Sarah Rubin, University of Maryland-Baltimore County Wanda Rushing, University of Memphis Emily Satterwhite, Virginia Tech University Claudio Saunt, University of Georgia Rebecca Sharpless, Texas Christian University Doug...
The Colonialist's Gaze
...Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. All images and quotes are from the original field books, which are located in the following archives...