Genres of Southern Literature
Introduction Booklover's Map of the United States, 1949. Map by Amy Jones. Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA-3.0. "Southern literature" announces the conjunction...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...from the Doctrine's intent. The Supreme Court of the United States upheld the doctrine in 1967 in Red Lion Broadcasting v. FCC 395 US 367 (1967), but in 1984 the Court ruled...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...to be remembered long after the fighting stopped."The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance" delves into the recorded past of a particularly fierce engagement between the United States and the...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1995): 38. "The United States was quite prosperous at that point, but east Kentucky wasn't and I had heard about that. . . . And I said,...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...that attempted to return freed slaves to a de facto bondage. Beginning in Mississippi in 1865, these so-called "Black Codes" appeared to grant Black people certain legal rights for the...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...stops and bike lanes and widen streets to promote public transportation. The most symbolic public spot in the corridor is Urdy Plaza, an open, art-decorated space that honors the African...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
..."Review: 'Cruising' maps the cultural history of L.A.'s hookup spots," Los Angeles Times, July 3, 2019, https://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-review-cruising-alex-espinoza-gay-history-20190703-story.htm. In short, cruising persists as a culturally relevant practice in the United States...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...Vital Statistics Rates in the United States, 1900-1940 (Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1943), 704-823; Robert D. Grove and Alice M. Hetzel, Vital Statistics Rates in the United States,...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...Nevertheless, it is possible to broadly trace the major waves of industrialization and deindustrialization in the United Kingdom and Europe, the United States, and the Far East. As shown in...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...bestseller for several weeks and received warm reviews from northerners and southerners, blacks and whites.3Jonathan Daniels, A Southerner Discovers the South (New York: Macmillan, 1938). All references are to this edition. Publishers Weekly listed A...