The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...of despair felt by people living in the coffee region after Hurricane San Ciriaco hit the island in August 1899. In a few hours, the coffee crop was swept away...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...travel. Good Roads activists began to lobby for a federally-funded highway system, and, after 1914, planning for the Dixie Highway commenced. The idea for the highway, Ingram notes, came from...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...in Hot Springs in search of food and shelter. Without money, she made her way to a bus station where a police officer found her "in a very serious condition."...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...Sanchez of the Norsan Group, and Dutch Knotts. This video could not have been made without the support of people and community leaders of Santa Eulalia, Guatemala, as well as...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...for some of the lowest paid and most dangerous jobs in the country.3For more on the poultry industry see Donald D. Stull and Michael J. Broadway, Slaughterhouse Blues: The Meat...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...of our time."10John Kirtley, "Facing a Harsh Truth When Fighting for a Bipartisan Cause," RedefinED, May 20, 2011, https://www.redefinedonline.org/2011/05/facing-a-harsh-truth-when-fighting-for-a-bipartisan-cause/; Katie Nielsen, "How School Choice Helps Advance Martin Luther King's Legacy,"...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...come to the United States. Increasing numbers found their way, as Rudy did, to the Southeast. Migrants did not disperse evenly, but settled in clusters and hot spots. The new...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Memphis is positioned at a strategic interstate crossroads in the middle of the United States, midway between Monterrey, Mexico, and Toronto, Canada. A new interstate highway, I-69, the NAFTA superhighway...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
.... . In other places, such behavior quickly elicits harsh sanctions."7Levine, "Gay Ghetto," 204. By contrast, Gieseking and Ghaziani attend more closely to a multiplicity of perspectives, change over time,...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...away. "Ridding Georgia of this troublesome population" As white Georgians mapped and planned and purchased, Cherokees found ways to resist state policy and citizen aggression. Ross maintained a strategy of...