Editors
...Butters, Duke University Keith Byerman, Indiana State University Richard Campanella, Tulane University Robert Cantwell, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Mike Carnathan, Atlanta Regional Commission Jim Carnes, Filmmaker Dan T. Carter,...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...treatment in recent scholarship on desegregation. In her history of desegregation in New Orleans, Liva Baker describes the white mothers, called the "cheerleaders," as carrying signs that read "If your...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...Cohen came to observe an economic depression and the music and culture of the Mountain South that possessed his heart and mind.5Michael Harrington, The Other America: Poverty in the United States (New...
Genres of Southern Literature
...its genre might not seem a touchstone of much value. To some, genres are universal categories that describe formal literary conventions, not geo-social preoccupations. Yet, the South can be said...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...all vie in contention with one another. When transit supporters are divided, as was the case in Atlanta, tax-averse conservatives carry the day. Whatever the case, at least one thing...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
Mandeville Thum, Mouth of the Cave, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, 1876–1877. Introduction Geologically, Mammoth Cave is a network of underground caverns in central Kentucky believed to be the world's largest cave...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...as attention-getting. WDBJ Interview with Vivian Carter Mason. Vivian Carter Mason presented a calm and reasoned account of the first day of integrated schools in Norfolk. She affirmed that both...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...her son John Lucas, laborer. The 1880 census shows her still residing at 1732 L NW with her daughter Margaret Carter, son in law Spencer Carter, and their young children:...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...people have drawn on a limited number of tropes. Whether Bayard Wootten's photographic illustrations for Cabins in the Laurel,1Muriel Earley Sheppard, Cabins in the Laurel (Chapel Hill: University of North...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...end helped ensure that cars traveled at near full capacity during their entire route, rather than departing and arriving at the end station with no passengers. Also, because many of...