Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...I moved to Charleston, South Carolina, to finish researching and writing my dissertation. Rawson: I came to Emory to continue studying culture in the US South, and I had a...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...the Business of Broadcasting in America. (Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1980), 153. "Unlike other major technologies—automobiles . . . or trains—that move us from one place to another,"...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...cartoon in its newsletter disingenuously claiming that communist subversives had carried out the attack in order to taint all segregationists with a reputation for violent bigotry. The cartoon showed a...
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:...
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...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...toxic sludge, which contains concentrated toxic substances such as selenium, cadmium, boron, arsenic and nickel. In addition to the knowledge that these dams can break (as one did in Buffalo...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...up its economy" (23). Nine flags, Presidio La Bahia, Goliad, Texas, April 5, 2014. Photograph by Carol M. Highsmith. Courtesy of the Carol M. Highsmith Collection, Library of Congress Prints and...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...6, 2014, A1; Dexter Mullins, "Mississippi to Make History by Opening Civil Rights Museum," Aljazeera America, October 23, 2013, http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/23/mississippi-civilrightsmuseumtomakehistory.html. For more on civil rights tourism see, Owen J. Dwyer...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...Career of Marihuana: Politics and Ideology of Drug Control in America (Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 1983); Dale H. Gieringer, "The Forgotten Origins of Cannabis Prohibition in California," Contemporary Drug Problems...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...number, I know I'll never call her Ain't turnin' down nothin' but my collar . . . Truth climbs onstage with him to perform "The GRASSROOTS! Campaign" to close out...