Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
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...
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...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...number of studies have suggested, many early minstrel performers expended considerable effort attempting to imitate the fiddle/banjo performances of black southerners, and these imitations were incorporated into the minstrel show—albeit...
"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...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...cultural life while revealing the poverty that an exploitative mining economy created. Clip from Roscoe Halcomb, "Across the Rocky Mountains," Disc One, Mountain Music of Kentucky CD, Smithsonian Folkways CD...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
Essay In early 1943, John Yoshida escaped from the American concentration camp at Jerome, Arkansas.1This essay is adapted from John Howard, Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Companies, the Fortune 500, and the Fortune Global 500. The company has won awards for innovation in information technology, including induction into the US Small Business Administration's Golden Anniversary Hall...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...Ellen Smith (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, forthcoming). Looking Back and Ahead The moment of victory was sweet. When Anne was editing the film, it became the apex of Morristown....
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...Smith, Food Power Politics (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023), 9. Smith aims to “expand the civil rights story” by illustrating how the lack of access to nutritional...