Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
..."a harbinger of mass culture" that helped bring about new codes of conduct as well as cross-racial relationships.3Kasson, 112. Kasson's history offers a relatively rosey view of amusement parks as...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...the wounded teenager, later identified as Timothy Weber, died in the local hospital. "That single shot," New York Times journalist Bob Herbert reported in 2007, "set in motion a tale...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...people listened—at practice spaces and house parties and venues like the 40 Watt. People went to hear their roommate or boyfriend or coworker play one night and urged everyone to...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...marginalized groups include not only land struggles by formerly enslaved people and by Native Americans, but also agricultural movements and the class-based mobilizations of populist agrarians. Chicano farmworker fights against...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...than for an audience. Though non-singers such as family members and descendants of singers, congregants at churches hosting singings, and other curious individuals do sometimes come to listen, the layout...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...for, among other things, playing local rap on New Orleans's listener-supported community radio station, WWOZ 90.7FM.14See Scott Jordan, "The Rap on WWOZ," The Gambit, August 19, 2003, http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/the-rap-on-wwoz/Content?oid=1241861. Rogan was...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...also speaks to the proto-nationalist tone of his Guia by re-envisioning the moment when Bahia was brought back under Portuguese imperial sovereignty, a point that may have carried strong weight as Brazil...
How the Court Killed the Voting Rights Act
...1980s,” National Conference of State Legislatures,April 30, 2025; List of Current Members of the U.S. Congress, Ballotpedia, 2026; List of Current United States Governors, Wikipedia, 2026. Apparently fond of maps...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...interest and decided to buy a car to restore. His original impulse was “to promote unity of the brothers.” Ancrum asked two men from each area of the county to...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...political football. Promotional infographic illustrating the making of Boyhood, 2014. © IFC Films. In times of economic crisis, many pundits and politicians choose to blame our problems on a degraded...