The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...LaFollette, Tennessee, and one such barn dance program was the Tennessee Jamboree. LaFollette Map of LaFollette, Tennessee. (Base Map Data: US Census Bureau) The Tennessee Jamboree was created to entertain the...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...mountains of east Tennessee, Morristown explores the lived experiences of workers from Tennessee and Mexico who speak about their lives, work, disappointments, and hopes. These conversations are combined with scenes...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...and American settlers. As the latter poured into the Ohio River Valley, with many of those in Kentucky bringing slaves and those in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois territories barred from...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...of the Ohio, together numbered approximately one hundred thousand troops as they approached the city, but only about twenty-seven thousand of them fought in the Battle of Atlanta.11Woodworth, Nothing But...
"Aint that Something?"
...© Robert Gipe, 2015. Originally published in Trampoline (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015), 1, 58. This material is used by permission of Ohio University Press, www.ohioswallow.com. "I had had my...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...cities such as New York and Philadelphia and then on to the forests of Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.14Jacob Ormanskey affidavit, DOJ Files NA, RG 60, Class 50, Box 10800,...
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...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...of Education to end segregation forthwith. Z. Alexander Looby, the chief NAACP attorney in Tennessee and one of two black members of the Nashville City Council, had been practicing law...
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
..."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...