Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...Byrd, including Byrd's own newspaper company, were unable to gain control of a television license. In Roanoke, the Fishburn family controlled the Roanoke World News and the CBS affiliate, WDBJ,...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...News, February 3, 1955, 3; "South Carolina," Southern School News, March 3, 1955, 14; "South Carolina," Southern School News, July 1955, 4. Even bills proposing confrontational tactics, such as closing...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...the National Women's Trade Union League, the National Child Labor Committee, the Chinese Working Women Network, and the International Labour Organization. By monitoring wages, working conditions, and human rights violations,...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...and more.10Edmund Russell, War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 127–129, 155. National news outlets...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...World-Herald, Mar. 30, 2006; Jones, "Get Crunk Huh!" This release and freedom from hooks and chains articulates the physical abandon that makes "rumps shake and jugular veins throb," offering momentary...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...Modern World, 1780–1914 (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004), 199. Battle cults and cycloramic images of famous war scenes, which flourished first in France and Germany, were among the influential transnational...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...Tennessee Jamboree was a descendant and a refashioning of the national radio "barn dance." Country music, by way of early "hillbilly" music, achieved its national and international status not through...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...the Confederacy to claim not just national distinctiveness but national distinction. (Inasmuch as they both analyze the transnational nature of Confederate nationalism, Paul Quigley's recent historical study, Shifting Grounds: Nationalism...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...Banner, August 17, 1832, p. 3. Athens Historic Newspapers Archive, Digital Library of Georgia. The drums turned from late October 1832 through April 1833. Publications broadcast the names, counties, and lot...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...American Indian Literary Nationalism concerning why tribal viewpoints, even if hybrid, could still be claimed as tribal and as national. The problem with debates, however, is they do very little...