The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...and Norfolk placed wharves all along the seaside within easy hauling distance of the rail depots. By opening innumerable new markets, the railroad vastly stimulated the seaside seafood industry. The...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...for Digital History at the University of Virginia and is co-editor of the Valley of the Shadow project at UVA. Acknowledgements I would like to thank Mary Catherine Wellons for...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...land use, see Karl Jacoby, Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001); Mart A. Stewart, "What Nature Suffers...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...W. Leak et al. vs. Seaboard Airline and Southern Railroad." Railroad Station, Manchester, Georgia, May 1938. Photograph by John Vachon. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...of southern deindustrialization and Asian labor markets. Who makes what where, when, and why depends on a chase around the globe for cheap labor that involves overlapping waves of industrialization...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...Norfolk, Virginia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), 91–92. Unlike other racially segregated leisure spaces, however, television brought the sounds and images of black music cultures to viewers of all colors across...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
..."the cultural system of ideas about social and linguistic relationships, together with their loading of moral and political interests."5Judith T. Irvine, "When Talk Isn't Cheap: Language and Political Economy," American...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...Lomax in the Evangeline Country (Valcour Records, 2015). Third image, cover of Best of Festivals Acadiens Et Créoles: 2002 Live Rubber Bootleg Series (Valcour Records, 2011). Bottom image, cover of Louisiana Cajun...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...distribution and have generated wealth. But the consequences of those decisions, and others, especially those connected with "selling" Memphis by offering typically southern industrial recruitment incentives, marketing cheap land and...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...number slightly above the percentage of the Asian school-age population. Only white students and students with Asian ancestries were in private schools in numbers that exceeded or generally matched their...