Deep Ellum Blues
Introduction The railroads made Dallas, Texas into a city, highways made it a Sunbelt city, and DFW Airport made it an international city. Never much known for making things, it...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
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Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...nineteen months. Starting in 1812, Charles Tinney was listed several times in local District of Columbia newspapers as receiving letters at the city post office. On December 2, 1817, he married...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...Atlanta. As Atlanta's black population grew in the 1950s and 1960s, city officials became concerned about "the prospect of a Negro majority in the city."1In May 1966, "the Atlanta Journal...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...MARBL.) At the end of Raymond's life, he and Benny had acrimonious phone conversations and exchanged angry letters. The letters referenced the phone conversations and expanded on them. By 1990,...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...small town of Woodstock. However, although Woodstock is only about thirty miles equidistant from the metropolitan centers of both Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, Alabama's largest city, the podcast deceptively portrays the...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...number of African Americans migrating to the South exceeded the number of those leaving the region. Especially for returning and primary migrants frustrated by the declining economic opportunities available in...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...taking a serious look, and the city chickens movement is gaining ground around the South. In 2008, Gulfport, Florida's city council passed new regulations that allow residents to keep chickens,...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...marry and raise their family in rural Caroline County, Virginia. In the 2016 cinematic dramatization, Loving, writer-director Jeff Nichols best exemplifies this simplicity neither through dramatic courtroom scenes nor in...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...know what WVU is like now, but at that time we had a large number of out of state students, partly because our tuition was so cheap, and the whole...