Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...under the authority of a cave guide. In the panorama, Bishop becomes merely one of the dozens of cave sites: "Stephen," the pamphlet reads, "the most complete of guides, the...
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...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...but the scale and scope of contemporary industrial development around the world is unprecedented. US industrialists began looking south for cheaper labor markets in the late 1870s, and investors, northern...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...the 1892 Chicago World Fair, and by 1893, forty-one percent of the nation's softwood came from the South. The industry came to realize that southern timber was an enormous untapped...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...a few, which also appeared in the American Guide Series. The WPA Guide To New Orleans, first published in 1938 and reissued in 1952 and 1983, was one of the...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...a rural county to mouse house [a reference to Disney World], Sea World, and the large influx of Hispanics. Businesses had to adapt. This office, for example, had to change....
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...not be pushed too far. Both blacks and whites worked as guides and cooks, and out on the labyrinthian Broadwater even the wealthiest sportsman soon learned that the guide was...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...of a number of nineteenth-century railroads whose proprietors wished to emphasize that their routes were more direct than those of competing roads. Black travelers described it in a discrimination complaint...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...were transplanted into birth control programs in postwar Japan and other “overpopulated” areas in the world. By using Japan as a model for global population control, US leaders sought to...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...ideas than had even other southern states, evacuees to South Carolina negotiated post-disaster displacement in a place where affordable housing, public transportation, and employment options are among the least available...