North Carolina: A State of Shock
...tax-free foundations, think-tanks, and funding agencies concluded that these organizations had spent between $2.5 and $3 billion from 1970 to 2003 in order to promote their ideas.19The National Committee for...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...entertainment. In 1870, Laurent DeGive opened Atlanta's first opera house, DeGive's Opera House, on Marietta Street. Through the 1880s and 1890s, the opera house catered to a growing cosmopolitan audience...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...in London from illness cut short her attempts at diplomacy and the promotion of coexistence between the two polities.14 Ibid., esp. 85–158. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as British...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...Communist Party vice-presidential candidate James W. Ford in October 1936, Daniels wrote a scolding editorial denouncing Ericson's action, not because Ford was a communist, but because he was black.22Eagles, Jonathan Daniels...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...Spaces, I am invested in making our journal better and in promoting open-access knowledge, so I spend time thinking about Wikipedia. On my to-do list for a while has been...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...Jupiter, El Sol, that had done such good work. But I have gotten ahead of myself because Guestworker came first. I worked with Cynthia Hill on that because I had...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...by Meredith Roman and Fumiko Sakashita examine Soviet and Japanese uses of US lynching in state propaganda during the 1930s and World War II. Both the Soviets and the Japanese,...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...Beasts was filmed: "it's a place where ingenuity rules. Planks, low-lying bridges make up the walkways from house to house, so if your bridge gets knocked out, you fill the...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...in its advertisements and promotional materials. Even in Democratic Clayton County, campaign spots promoted the creation of a super-arterial highway along Tara Boulevard, but said precious little about the resuscitation...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
..."plantations," the big house may be extant, but few structures directly related to the enslaved—dwellings, barns, and mills—remain.36See Michael Vlach, Back of the Big House; The Architecture of Plantation Slavery...