Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...Bryan's company owned the Richmond Times-Dispatch and the Richmond News Leader, as well as two radio stations in Richmond. When the Richmond Television Corporation, headed by Morton G. Thalhimer, a...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, 2011. William G. Thomas III, Statue of Stonewall Jackson, Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, 2011. Indeed, one hundred and fifty years ago in 1861, Richmond became the capital...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...Digital Scholarship Lab fits that category. For example, the primary audience for our Redlining Richmond project, which maps the survey data for Richmond neighborhoods amassed by the Home Owners' Loan...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...the varied contexts for this process even in a relatively small, but environmentally-complex area. See especially Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity. (Cambridge: Polity, 1990, 18-19). The relationship between the...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
Introduction Location of Lockhart, Alabama, 2012. On a warm spring day in 1904, former governor of Maryland and lumberman E. E. Jackson, along with several associates, traveled to Alabama to...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...readmission to the University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, February 29, 1956. Photograph by Norman Dean. Originally published in the Birmingham News. Courtesy of the Alabama Media Group Collection, Alabama Department...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...railroads had a single ticket booth with segregated ticket windows was less innocuous than it might seem.11A Florida statute passed in 1907 required "Separate Waiting Rooms and Ticket Windows," The...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...map at the Richmond Civil War Centennial Center, Richmond, Virginia, c. 1965. Courtesy of the Valentine Richmond History Center. Richmond Times-Dispatch, Ralph Rogers peering into a space capsule on...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket: Video and Essay Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket. A short video by Ben Harmon and Catalina McCormick, 2009. Individuals' experiences in the criminal...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...textile states, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama, where they met stiff opposition. Underage workers continued to labor in large numbers throughout the South until World War I. In 1946, southerners...