Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...produced a tight coterie of local law enforcement, public health, and social welfare officials who carried their anti-marijuana campaign to the federal level. So much so that when Commissioner Anslinger...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...have never comprised more than eleven percent of total population.3Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, US Supreme Court Oral Arguments, Transcript, No. 1296, February 27, 2013, 3–4, http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/12-96.pdf. The case before the...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...Alabama, and Haralson, Carroll, and Heard Counties, Georgia. Alabama and Georgia Upcountry Sacred Harp Singings, 1995–2014 Alabama and Georgia Upcountry Sacred Harp Singings, 1995–2014. Interactive Map by Jesse P. Karlsberg...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...first capital became the largest of Georgia’s removal posts and headquarters for Cherokee removal from Georgia. By 1837 the name had changed to Fort Wool. Matthew Brady, Portrait of General...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...previously "undeveloped" countryside. The latter turn out to be exceptional turncoats in an otherwise "loyal" and tight-knit rural community. Merthiolate-Colored Flags Sibley's locating Sweet Apple within the pastoral was as...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...Documentary. Accessed in Crystal Lee Sutton's personal papers 986.87, an unprocessed collection housed at Alamance Community College, Graham, North Carolina. For more information about the history and content of the...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...indelible imprint on national and global culture (250). In the book's final section, "Bourbon Street as Social Artifact," Campanella attempts to uncover how cultural and social practice has constructed the...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...white supremacist paraphernalia led to a long overdue consensus in the all but all-white Republican party that publicly-sanctioned displays of the flag should stop. South Carolina and Alabama removed the...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...the T-SPLOST's greatest impact may have been to signal to national and even international audiences that Atlanta has the wherewithal to at least address its debilitating mobility crisis. With federal...
Brushes with War
...metaphorical meaning in the face of social and political calamity. The Meteor of 1860, 1860. Oil on canvas by Frederic Edwin Church. Courtesy of WikiPaintings.org. Indeed, Harvey goes further, arguing...