Deep Ellum Blues
...soon after the war, and settled in a variety of 'Freedmantowns' around the city. One of these Freedmantowns remained in the far north of the city in my own childhood...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...Tashkent. In all, 130 companies from seventeen countries participated, among them Austria, Belgium, Great Britain, Germany, India, Italy, Russia, the United States, Turkey, Switzerland, France, the Czech Republic, South Korea,...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...both in the United States and Great Britain. The story of Sunbelt conservatism has in many ways been this struggle between the movement's ego and its id, between the thoughtful...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...J. W. Neal slave house was near the city's center market. Even free people of color did not feel safe on DC's streets. From 1852 until 1906, the celebrated free...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...islands that buffer the mainland from the Atlantic Ocean. For example, marshlands declined 16 per cent between 1852 to 1960 due largely to sea level rise. Moreover, between 1872 and...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...thirty-five percent of the region's Republican males and just half of Republican women. With such limited support from conservatives, however, the campaign needed to win votes from sixty percent or...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...in preceding years, but between the early 1990s and the end of the decade, Wake County was "washed over by a Republican tide that had swept much of the South"...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...in Georgia, which is available to watch for free. https://vimeo.com/470999167 Trailer for Suppressed: The Fight to Vote, July 23, 2019. Trailer by Brave New Films. Courtesy of Brave New Films....
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...that our worlds never fall apart, in taking the day-to-day for granted. We like to think we know better (“Here today, gone tomorrow,” and all that). Whatever we know doesn’t...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...construed, encourage critical thinking for the betterment of civic society. HyperCities leaves specific tensions between the roots of these digital technologies and their adoption by humanities-driven scholars under-explored. Aside from briefly...