American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...characterization of New Orleans as "an inevitable city on an impossible site."10Lewis, New Orleans. Lewis contends that New Orleans has to exist given its prime location at the confluence of...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...desires that contribute to any non-metropolitan identification."4Scott Herring, Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism (New York: New York University Press, 2010), 9. Herring's own work focuses on contemporary artistic portrayals of the...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...for him with a malignant air and the negro lost no time in taking himself away. After that he knew his place."12J. E. Johnson, "Siamese Twins," in Mount Airy News,...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...of organizations and activists working on these questions. The following owes something to the New Deal economist Milburn Wilson, the geographer J. Russell Smith, the historian Lewis Cecil Gray, the...
Encountering COVID
...all by myself. Then out of the blue came the idea of Humans of New York. And I thought, "Oh, Brandon Stanton interviewed thousands of people in New York, took...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...textbooks. But nearly every major US newspaper covered the events of March 1931 in northeast Alabama. The news of successive Scottsboro trials reverberated globally, prompting demonstrations from Cape Town to...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
The dual attraction of New Orleans. From Katie Gillett, The Post-Grad Hipster's Guide to Inhabitable U.S. Cities, 2011. Since I left New Orleans for good in 2007, I hear more...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...the miners, then reopen under new corporate settings. These new companies do not rehire the miners who were active under the previous contract. Instead of hiring the local workers who...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...Thought from Slavery to Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977). Community, after all, was a key word in the new social history. For revisionist historians "community" signaled a broad...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...Carolina General Assembly and approved by both school boards made the merger possible. The contentious debates that initially surrounded unification—centering on how to redistribute resources and students in the new...