Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...Cowles' correspondence, see the Archie C. Cowles Papers, Garland County Historical Society Archives, Hot Springs, Arkansas. In August 1918, Camp Pike's commanders ordered the closure of Hot Springs's numerous "houses...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...John Armistead's beech grove two miles east of town. With the filling-in of Yancey Springs to make way for the Air-Line Railroad in 1868, Atlantans looked to Armistead's springs to...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...see Jefferson R. Cowie, Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999). Wal-Mart, the most successful corporation operating in the global economy of the twenty-first...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...separations to both worker choice and southern custom. He notes that southern workers called the foreigners "dagos" and "sheenies." Men called one camp "the dago camp" for its large Italian...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...because of the springs constantly pumping out water. Lots of cabbage palm trees, which is the state tree in Florida. Some cypress and cedar trees remain, although most of them...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...importunes you to the point of rage to buy cheap candy, Coca-Cola, and worthless, if not vulgar, books." Segregated waiting room at Union Station railroad depot, Jacksonville, Florida, 1921. Photograph...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...and Social Change (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 35. In 1937, for instance, President Franklin Roosevelt wrote: It is an indispensable part of American policy that the coming generation...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...into the state's Francophone musical traditions, with a portable recording device in tow, began an intermittent but deeply influential engagement with Cajun and Creole music across his long career. Indeed,...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...trees," those that followed soon after discovered "new settlements appearing, and buildings going up wherever a station has been built." From the new depots (eventually numbering twenty-eight) rail cars carried...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...Nancy Casey, mother-in-law to the founder of the Wiregrass Singers, Dewey Williams. Casey mentioned a white man from Georgia who once came to teach singing schools.32Doris Dyen, electronic mail correspondence...