Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...construction of bridges across the Santee River to the north and the Cooper River to Charleston in the 1920s. Today, the town’s largely white population numbers around 450. Conversely, the...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...in the country." Freeman quotes several white Oak Ridgers who professed ignorance about the living conditions of its residents (112, 58). Billboard encouraging secrecy amongst Oak Ridge workers, Oak Ridge, TN,...
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...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...Locheridge is to come down here and interview me for the Sunday supplement. You will probably find me tricked out in the personality of the Georgia Farm Girl or Good-Earth-Loving...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
Introduction—Salt Creek and City Nature Sunshine City beer can at Tropicana Field, which was built over razed African American neighborhood, St. Petersburg, Florida. Photograph courtesy of Marcel Hartwig. To place...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...the country and the state's Asian and Latino populations more than doubled in the last decade. Occupational opportunities in construction, food processing, and textiles are attracting increasing numbers of immigrants.4R....
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...American Revolution recast as a socialist revolt, freeing the young workers of Okemah, Oklahoma, from the tyranny of a ten-year-old King George. These exaggerated exploits not only further Guthrie's socialist...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...hopes that Bishop's "last breath may be a free one" (419)—is removed by every writer who borrowed liberally (sometimes without attribution) from her, we might read the "Jordan" River as...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...is often difficult, however, distinguishing between what is truly notable historically and that which is mere post-election chatter. Map of the Sunbelt (marked in red) One noteworthy aspect of the...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...to a nearby oil and gas field, the industry and state agencies expressed serious reservations. Jason P. Theriot's American Energy, Imperiled Coast chronicles the development of science and policy surrounding the...