The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...Eastern Shore of Virginia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," II, 599; "History of Growth of the Telephone on E.S. of Virginia," PE, August 18, 1928. The landscape, town and...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...University of Virginia Library, and Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia. Roanoke World News, February 20, 1959. Virginia's Governor Almond, cover of TIME magazine, September 22, 1958. Almond's...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...states, how did you identify as a West Virginian? ANN: Growing up, many of us were very aware we were West Virginian. As a kid in West Virginia, you get...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...of Virginia, Cohabiting Together as Husband and Wife, 1866 Feb. 27 (hereafter Cohabitation Register, Augusta County), 28. Cohabitation Registers Digital Collection, Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA, http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R?func=collections-result&collection_id=1522; U.S. Bureau of...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...central pine belt begins at the Chesapeake Bay of Virginia and runs through North Carolina, northern Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas. The southern pine belt extends from southeastern Virginia to eastern...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...South, which includes the twelve states listed above as well as Kentucky, Texas, and West Virginia. In 2018, more than $2.1 billion dollars in state funds went to support private...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...of southern deindustrialization and Asian labor markets. Who makes what where, when, and why depends on a chase around the globe for cheap labor that involves overlapping waves of industrialization...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...Virginia, the Sea Board Air Line Railway ran along the South's eastern coast, terminating in Florida. Despite its name, it owned no airplanes. Before the days of air travel, "air...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
In Search of Justice Mother Jones once said, "There is no peace in West Virginia, because there is no justice [in West Virginia]." This is as true today as when...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...a trip from Atlanta to northern Virginia. The route extended northeast along Interstate 85 to Petersburg, Virginia, then over to Interstate 95. The return trip originated in Winchester, Virginia, and...