Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...as Sigmund Schwartz and Frank and Miller Company in New York City to recruit European immigrant laborers for the Jackson Tract. Foreign immigrant workers knew little of the dangers of...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...Archive Center, Rockefeller Foundation. Bottom, Dispensary scene, teaching by lecture and demonstration, Dr. Caldwell. Courtesy of the 100 Years: The Rockefeller Foundation website, Rockefeller Archive Center, Rockefeller Foundation. As the impetus for a...
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
...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...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, August 20, 1959. Photograph by John T. Bledsoe. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/item/2003654358. In the same year, Florida...
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...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...increase from forty-four to sixty-seven the number of post offices in Accomack and Northampton counties. The advent of the railroad in 1884 further stimulated the establishment of post offices both...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
..."The B-52s, Mesopotamia (Warner Brothers)," New York Rocker, April 1982, 43; J. Eddy Ellison, "Athens Own B-52s Rock the Fox, Still Have Their 40 Watt Charisma," Red and Black, May...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...attempt to integrate Little Rock's Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, September 4, 1957. Photograph by Will Counts. Courtesy of Matthew F. Delmont. Changes to the structure of public life took...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...720, box 85, series 1.5, RG 5, John D. Rockefeller III Papers, Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, New York (hereafter, RAC); Deborah Oakley, “The Development of Population Policy in Japan,...