Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
..."in the timber." Clad in fine suits and surrounded by industry journalists, they walked the forest and discussed plans to establish a "Model Sawmill Plant" and a company town named...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...US-made looms manufactured by the Draper Company in Hopedale, Massachusetts. The first Draper loom appeared in 1895; the ones in Margilan are Model K and Model XK looms, which went...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...and in some cases to Canada. In 12 hours the fresh and tempting fruits and vegetables are delivered in New York, in 20 hours in Boston, and in 30 hours...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...gets the worst room and it is seldom well lighted or clean."2Charles W. Chesnutt, "The White and the Black," Boston Evening Transcript, March 20, 1901, 13. The "Colored Waiting Room"...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
..."the cultural system of ideas about social and linguistic relationships, together with their loading of moral and political interests."5Judith T. Irvine, "When Talk Isn't Cheap: Language and Political Economy," American...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...topical ballads and crossover dance numbers such as "Little Liza Jane." While anglophone black string band and folk blues traditions have not thrived in south Louisiana, all evidence indicates that...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...square miles of alluvial floodplain. Map of Mississippi Delta from Charles Wilson's "Mississippi Delta." The Yazoo-Mississippi floodplain is usually called "the Mississippi Delta" or simply "the Delta" by the region's...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...in operation. Animation by Steve Bransford and Brian Riedel, 2020. Dataset by Brian Riedel, 2015. ArcGIS map by Stephanie Bryan and Brian Riedel, 2020. That animation suggests several phases to...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...les interesaba mucho el estudio minucioso del contexto: parte del equipo visitó la isla y el montaje contó con proyecciones documentales, que contrastaban deliciosamente con la dramatización del texto en...
Mississippi Delta
...environmental forces, the dynamics of an evolving biracial society, and the Delta's relationship to broader southern, American, and global forces. The "Mississippi Delta" is actually the delta of the Yazoo River,...