Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...1907, Forest History Society archive. In the summer of 1906, one year after Theodore Roosevelt established the US Forest Service and appointed Gifford Pinchot to implement a conservationist policy,...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...describe how crimes are prosecuted on reservations. And it involves a complicated narrative about how Oklahoma tribal jurisdiction has a unique status in relationship to other Indian reservations across the...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...stores, and residences. Once a place obtained postal service, its citizens were equally determined not to lose it or see it curtailed. When one small town had its mail service...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...of itself involves an infusion of city into country and vice versa. Sibley approaches the pastoral ideal of "the country" that emphasizes the "peace, innocence, and simple virtue" of rural...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...an opportunity to visit other churches in the area. The meetings are called the fourth Sunday and the eighth Sunday. The fourth Sunday is the regular church meeting. On the...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...a country music radio variety show, aired between 1953 and 1978 on AM station WLAF in LaFollette, Tennessee. Across twenty-five years, the Blue Valley Boys and Girls, the show's featured...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...ticket buyers wait until they had finished serving customers on the white side of the booth, regardless of how long their Black customers had been waiting. As a result, however...
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,"...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qbf43; Robert Wooster, "Military History," Handbook of Texas, Texas State Historical Association, accessed April 1, 2019, https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qzmtg. While Kelly AFB closed in 2001, the other two bases, along with Ft....
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
Introduction U.S. Public Health Service Advertisements, ca. 1905. Photograph by Harris & Ewing. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/resource/hec.20772/. In the winter of 1936, Minnie...