Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...job and to function as engaged citizens of the global economy is honored and respected. "Looking Back and Ahead" offers our conclusion. Going South: A Trip to the Maquiladoras The...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...old questions about social inequality and the regional history of investments and expectations for public education and economic prosperity. Debates continue about how best to allocate and utilize place-specific local...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...visited as "examples" or as propaganda. "I didn't want to point out, 'Look at the poverty here' or 'Look at what the capitalist system has done.'"67Cohen interview; Joel Agee, interviewed...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...of Historic Places," Bristol Herald-Courier, 1 September 2007. In 2007, the Moonlite theater in Abingdon, Virginia became one of three drive-in theaters nationwide to be placed on the National Register...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and GQ, and selected for the anthologies Best American Short Stories, New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, and The O. Henry Awards' Prize Stories. His...
Encountering COVID
...them in times of crisis because it's a place to get news, it's a place to get out of your house, and it's a place to be around people in...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...their own meaning and influence. When we move between these places and scales of place discursively, we must be intentional and attentive. I also am a real believer in Southern...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...if I look at photographs shot in 2010, I can see the beginning of the environmental damage. When you go to a place like this, it's like any forest. There...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...Of course, the very best sound is in the center of the hollow square. In this space, the singing is loudest and all four parts achieve their best balance. Many...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...Views of Black Americans," Journal of Politics 68, no. 3 (July 2006): 571–584; Heather A. Smith and Owen J. Furuseth, eds., Latinos in the New South: Transformations of Place (Aldershot,...