Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...(New York: Basic Books, 1992). The "Jackson Tract" E. E. Jackson. American Lumberman 1907, Part 1, January–June 1907, Forest History Society archive. Governor E. E. Jackson of Maryland—Methodist, Republican, and...
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...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...from Campbell's company, one of whom subsequently died.92Thomas Hughey payment to Francis Burke, June 6, to Jesse Lambert, June 13, and to A. B. Reece, June 16, 1838, Voucher 141,...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...increase from forty-four to sixty-seven the number of post offices in Accomack and Northampton counties. The advent of the railroad in 1884 further stimulated the establishment of post offices both...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...of a number of nineteenth-century railroads whose proprietors wished to emphasize that their routes were more direct than those of competing roads. Black travelers described it in a discrimination complaint...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...(585), Cubans 3.1 percent (799), and other Hispanics or Latinos 19.8 percent (5,158). On June 17, 2008 an Internet user by the name of Poodlestix posted an entry on City-Data.com,...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...topical ballads and crossover dance numbers such as "Little Liza Jane." While anglophone black string band and folk blues traditions have not thrived in south Louisiana, all evidence indicates that...
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...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...June 23, 2019. Video still by Steve Bransford. We used new video and audio recording technologies to capture elements of the experience of the hollow square. Our recording equipment included...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...During the Depression few people were willing to spring for the price of tickets, and drive-ins slowly appeared on the outskirts of other urban areas, such as Galveston, Texas, Los...