A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...no longer afford to live there. But Campanella's study is less concerned with illuminating this mutuality than in promoting Bourbon Street as the quintessential American success story. NOPD Police Sign...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...remain and tend the land as their ancestors had for centuries. In 1998, UNESCO named Viñales a World Heritage site.2"World Heritage List," UNESCO, accessed March 15, 2012, http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/840. Some residents...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...the 1770s William Bartram’s list of forty-three Cherokee towns noted "Allagae" as a settlement located on "the waters of other rivers," those he had not traversed.8Bartram listed the Tennessee, Savannah,...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...reconstruct Bishop and other cave guides as avatars of slave self-empowerment. While these historical figures found ways of confusing the behavioral codes of slavery in their everyday interactions with cave...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...to whites. Black novelist Charles Chesnutt noted in an article written in 1901, "If there is any choice of location" when it came to positioning such rooms, "the Negro always...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...to Louisiana in 1972 to teach at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, east of Baton Rouge and about sixty miles northwest of New Orleans. He brought with him his new...
Good-Bye to All That?
...of community activism) and Sam Edney (a local businessman and committed environmentalist whose special passion is the problem of food insecurity for children) ran as Democrats. The two worked seventy-hour...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...private schools. At least twenty, including most in the South, have adopted or are on a path to enact legislation making state-funded “Educational Savings Accounts” (ESAs)—the newest type of voucher...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...fellow conspirators, tasting two thousand oysters from all along the Gulf Coast. It was the first symposium hosted by Foodways Texas, an organization dedicated to preserving, promoting, and celebrating the...