Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...exactly like the ones in the Carolinas almost a century earlier? Map showing location of Margilan, Uzbekistan. Map of North Carolina and South Carolina. Workers across the Global South share...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...Looking for Longleaf: The Fall and Rise of an American Forest (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004). The northern belt of US coniferous pine forest stretches from New...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991), and the classic John F. Stover, History of the Railroads of the South, 1865-1900: A Study in Finance and Control (Chapel Hill: University...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...Map by the North Carolina State Board of Elections and Google Maps. 2003 (top) and 2011 (bottom) North Carolina Senate district maps. Map by the North Carolina State Board...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...Dancy, R. H. W. Leak et al. vs. Seaboard Airline and Southern Railroad," in Eighth Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of North Carolina (Raleigh: Guy V. Barnes,...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Compulsory Association" by Any or Many Means Six other states—Mississippi, Louisiana, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia—also created strategy groups to block school desegregation. Each group had its own...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...families. From the 1920s through the 1950s, white women comprised at least one-third of the textile labor force; in 1929, their numbers in North Carolina peaked at 44.6 percent. By...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...David E. Whisnant, All That Is Native and Fine: The Politics of Culture in an American Region (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984); Benjamin Filene, Romancing the Folk:...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...prospects of the white freemen of South Carolina who do not own slaves, etc."17"Law in South-Carolina," New York Tribune, reprinted in Lancaster (PA) Examiner, August 1, 1849. As this paper...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...North, New York Times, September 3, 1864. Northern Civil War commanders made the capture of Confederate cities—specifically Atlanta and Richmond—and the crippling or destroying of the armies defending them, the major...