Browse Items (6 total)

'In the year of the storm', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2005; 2007; 2007-7-1; 21st century; Abandoned houses; African Americans; Earth Sciences; Hurricane Katrina; Louisiana; Meteorology and Climate Science; Murrell, Duncan; New Orleans; New Orleans (La.); Race relations; Social aspects; Social conditions

'Detroit Arcadia', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2007; 2007-7-1; 21st century; African Americans; Automobile industry and trade; Detroit; Detroit (Mich.); Diego Rivera; Economic conditions; Engineering; History; Inner cities; Mechanical Engineering; Michigan; Race relations; Social conditions; Sociology; Solnit, Rebecca; Urban; Urban agriculture; Urban ecology

'The builder who makes integration pay', Harpers

Tags: 1960s; 1965; 1965-7-1; African Americans; Balk, Alfred; civil engineering; Discrimination in housing; Engineering; Finance; Housing; Morris Milgram; Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; Philadelphia (Pa.); Race relations; Real estate development

'Barnum as legislator', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-9-1; African Americans; Connecticut; Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; P.T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum; Politics and government; Railroad companies; Root, Harvey Woods; Suffrage; Trials (Divorce)

'Concerning chickens', Harpers

Tags: 1920; 1920-7-1; 1920s; African Americans; Atlanta; Biology; Chicken breeders; Chicken stealing; Georgia; Humor; Ornithology; Zoology

'Steamboating through Dixie', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1915; 1915-9-1; African Americans; Aylward, W. J. (William James); Commerce; Description and travel; Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Memphis (Tenn.); Mississippi River; Passenger accommodation; River steamers; Stevedores; Theatrical companies