Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...boys. When construction in the park cut off an irrigation line, however, the newly planted trees dried up and died. This story is nothing new. Landscape theorist Anne Whiston Spirn...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...days—the government inspection steamer, Mississippi, and John Newton, and a couple of others: in New Orleans we'd see the Delta Queen or the Gordon C. Green. My father knew the...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...1998 PBS documentary, online at www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia. Pierce Butler had the impending sale advertised continuously in The Savannah Republican, The Savannah Daily Morning News, and in contemporary newspapers throughout the southeastern...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...1902). Top, Edward Albert Batson, New Orleans Daily Picayune, 1902. Batson was found guilty of murder and executed. Bottom, Sheriff Perkins and deputy Fontenot, Batson's Louisiana escorts. New Orleans Daily Picayune, 1902. Images...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...Emancipation (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003); Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present (New York: Basic Books,...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...Michele Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (New York: New Press, 2012); Rhonda Y. Williams, "'We Refuse!': Privatization, Housing, and Human Rights," in Freedom...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...Effects.10Karen Moline, "Pylon: From Athens, GA: New Sounds of the Old South," New York Rocker, March 1981, 15–17; Vic Varney, "'Nineteen Hours from New York': Small Town Makes Good," New...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
Review In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, clubs in Houston, Dallas, and many other centers of New Orleanian displacement hosted "New Orleans" nights, featuring rap music from the Crescent City....
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/prospect-of-regional-transit-plan-raises-ire/nQPPb/; Ariel Hart, "Boon for toll lanes, not transit," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 2, 2012, Accessed September 6, 2012, http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/boon-for-toll-lanes-not-transit/nQShc/; Steve Visser, "MARTA privatization bill stalls in the Senate," The...
The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks
...than evaluating the accuracy of Ruth’s account or those of her critics, this article investigates what her rich, if fragmentary, archival materials, along with her published memoir and newspaper accounts,...