"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...desire and offered a place of female bonding, its idealization by gay civilians negated the reality of gay WACs who had to navigate the space. While a place of sociality,...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...to before the exploitation of the coal seams. People often ask, how could this happen? How could one of the most minerally rich places be populated by some of the...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...14, 1997. Mr. Ibrhaim and his daughter continued to place objects at Nannie's memorial for several years. Inspired by this example visitors across the subsequent years have placed objects, including...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...of a number of "marked trails" of this era—would join existing local roads into a long-distance highway linking north and south. Not coincidentally, it would connect the metropolitan North with...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...as a result of desegregation, only 37% of black students attended mostly black schools, by the year 2000, that number had grown to 69%, quickly approaching the 1968 numbers for...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...people found out when posters went up for "Pylon's Last Show" with opening act Love Tractor. The gig took place in a huge venue known more for its cheap drink...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...places himself and his companions in the unexamined position of vulnerable white settlers: "The silence of eternal solitude reigned over all; the deep waters flowed sluggishly beneath our bateau, and...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...centuries. This book won the President's Book Award for the best new book manuscript from the Social Science History Association and was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1996....
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...can indicate where accents should be placed. Music composed in this style may feature dispersed harmony, in which the parts cross over each other rather than running parallel. Both the...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...style—often referred to as Piedmont blues—that "encompasses the East Coast from Florida to Maryland, stretching westward through the Piedmont, the Appalachian Mountains, and the Ohio River Valley to central Kentucky...