The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...backdrop of the Eastern Shore of Virginia is predominantly one of change, both on long- and short-term scales. The current mainland-marsh-lagoon-barrier island complex has its origins in the sea level...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Douglas Martin, "Julius Chambers, a Fighter for Civil Rights, Dies at 76," New York Times, August 6, 2013, https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/07/us/julius-chambers-a-fighter-for-civil-rights-dies-at-76.html; "Hawkins v. North Carolina State Board of Education," Race Relations Law...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...cycle annually through the Pearl River Delta, now commonly referred to as the "factory of the world." One-third of China's total exports come from this coastal region, which enjoys easy...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...preventing Federal reinforcements of McPherson and Schofield's armies and then engaging Thomas once the battle became general. Hardee's division commanders, Confederate division commanders whose units completed Hardee's Night March, clockwise...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...Fus' Rate Bargain'", 67, 68. Doesticks also tells of Daphne, a young woman who was wrapped in a shawl when ordered to mount the auction block. Buyers, bothered that they...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...all worked to use the new medium to their advantage. Logo for the US Federal Communications Commission. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Television became a subject of scrutiny within the politics...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...compete for the "Golden Chicken" trophy.4Chris Allen Baker, "Battle for Golden Chicken Enters Its 80th Year," Scott County Times, October 21, 2009, accessed November 6, 2013, http://www.sctonline.net/news/article_2e8efddf-5c83-5935-9ea3-eac434b9b7cf.html. Typical for poultry-producing...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...a Black social and political club that operated from 1975 into the 1980s.81For more on The Houston Committee, see "Houston Committee," Upfront 1, no. 2 (April 28, 1978): 2. http://www.houstonlgbthistory.org/Houston80s/Upfront/Upfront-V1-1-2.compressed.pdf....
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...this question, the poetic voice—or rather, the voices in the communal register of this composition—portrays the US military intervention as an added catastrophe for the very poor.21On the importance of...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...post on "Lakeside subdivision in Buena Ventura Lakes? (Kissimmee: house, neighborhood, income)," City-Data.com, June 17, 2008, http://www.city-data.com/forum/orlando/356547-lakeside-subdivision-buena-ventura-lakes.html. I have not corrected the grammar nor altered the language in any of...