Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...at 94 in 1982. During the 1980s, Houston endured the double impact of HIV/AIDS and the long economic fallout of the 1981 oil bust. The number of queer businesses began...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...the music's note heads have four distinct shapes corresponding to their position in the scale, associated with the names "fa," "sol," "la," and "mi," which singers recite before singing a...
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...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...sustain Nixon and Reagan policies in blocking inter-district desegregation plans.122See Lassiter, The Silent Majority, 295–324. Earlier segregationists had foreseen the importance of district lines. In 1955, Forney Johnston, one of...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...military records as citizens who made removal from Fort Means possible.74A. Cox Settled Account 4849, Box 1218, Entry 712, Abstract A, Sub Abstract 9, Subvouchers 1–15, and Voucher 143, Subvoucher...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...Detail Showing the Cotton Regions of the United States. Illustration by James Wells Champney, 1875. Originally published in Edward King and James Wells Champney's The Great South (Hartford, CT: American...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...on his way to Mississippi. As his guide gave him a quick tour across town, he immediately noticed the strict residential segregation. The group first walked through the “Creole district,”...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...forced workers back into the plant without a contract. The company hired Kullman, Lang, Inman and Bee, a New Orleans law firm with a reputation for dragging out contract negotiations...
Encountering COVID
...these oral histories affect you? Did you compartmentalize them as research? Fishburne: I didn't see the project as research. It was just my life. Even now, when people talk about...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...Guatemala Never Again! (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1999); “Guatemala Peace Accords,” NACLA on the Americas (May/June 1997) http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/47/140.html. La emigración inicial a los Estados unidos comenzó durante este periodo...