The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...effect of Oklahoma's boom and bust oil speculation economy on his home town, especially its children: A new tribe of boomchasers hit town every day, families with kids, kids looking...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...numbers, vetting projects, and trading horses in an effort that to longtime observers must have seemed a fool's errand. Competition, not collaboration, had long characterized metropolitan relationships and it wasn't...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
Appendix I: Background on the Family of Francis Tinney Charles Teney manumitted Francis's father William Don Otius Teney on November 15, 1827, along with William's siblings Ann and Andrew and their...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...want to be in that number."14Edwin Bocage, as quoted in Various Artists, Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album (Nonesuch Records, 2005). Nick Spitzer, Eddie Bo, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2005. A...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...saw nothing unusual about him. Late in the evening, Mr. William Boyd, of Rocky Creek in Chester District, which had recently been settled by emigrants from the north of Ireland,...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...content. With the increasing number of multimedia articles and features, we standardized the organization of pieces to enhance accessibility. We shifted from pieces with numerous pages to scroll-down navigation. These...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...River Parade in April of 1941. Throughout the forties and fifties, the River Walk featured a small sampling of restaurants, shops, and boating activities that drew in a fair number...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...Continent Press, 1847. The thirteen major African-American extended families in present day Oxford are able to trace their descendants back to the early enslaved families of Oxford, who labored on...
Besieged Terrain
...Cherokee claimed much of Kentucky as hunting grounds, but Chickasaws, Creeks, Iroquois, and Shawnee also shared the area. By the late 1700s two European families had settled in what would...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...even though they clearly pointed to high PCB levels among the poor and working-class families living near the plant. Monsanto Chemical Company, Anniston, Alabama, 1940. Postcard by EC Kropp Company....