Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
Introduction Location of Lockhart, Alabama, 2012. On a warm spring day in 1904, former governor of Maryland and lumberman E. E. Jackson, along with several associates, traveled to Alabama to...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...readmission to the University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, February 29, 1956. Photograph by Norman Dean. Originally published in the Birmingham News. Courtesy of the Alabama Media Group Collection, Alabama Department...
Huntsville, Alabama images
Huntsville, Alabama: Big Spring International Park Attracted by a fast-flowing spring, John Hunt, the founder of Huntsville, built a cabin here in 1805. Six years later, Huntsville became the first...
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...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...from Campbell's company, one of whom subsequently died.92Thomas Hughey payment to Francis Burke, June 6, to Jesse Lambert, June 13, and to A. B. Reece, June 16, 1838, Voucher 141,...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...continued to decline throughout the 1990s; by century's end, fewer than 450 theaters survived.6"Interactive Statistics." In the 2000s, the number of theaters stabilized at around four hundred, but their geographical...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...the street is provided for each compartment."20The General Code of the City of Birmingham, Alabama, of 1930: (Includes All Ordinances of a General and Permanent Nature except as Specified in...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...than those they already know — then I would never want to put myself in such a situation.)"99"Field Trip — Kentucky," 13. Cohen justified his trip with motives that transcended...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...of dancing to a triple meter. As the valse à deux temps tends to be a quick dance, involving almost constant turning, faster songs in triple meter, such as this...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland During the Nineteenth Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985), 170. For antebellum Eastern Shore agriculture see "Sketch of a Hasty View...