Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...a 48 inch gang [saw], with a capacity of 250,000 feet in a 22 hour run and will later be increased in size to have approximately that capacity in an...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...along the corridor. A gateway arch laden with the Texas Star welcomes traffic from downtown. The cityscape here appears more modern, newer, and cleaner than much on the Eastside. Multiple...
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...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...Cajuns in the New Economy of Ethnicity (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002). His mediation rested on the primacy of French as a marker of cultural authenticity. "[T]he preservation of the language,"...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...and provided water and sewage (which was flushed raw into the creeks). Power plants supplied electricity to the towns and extended the grid into the country. Telephone switchboards linked the...
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...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...estate market, foreclosure, rentals)," City-Data.com, November 28, 2009, http://www.city-data.com/forum/orlando/807347-moving-kissimmee-ks-orlando-sanford-real-2.html. Kissimmee is a city in transition . . . Wikipedia says the Latino pop in Kissimmee is only 40%, I beg...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...723. For his part, Ghaziani observes that "new residential and leisure queer spaces are forming across the city, and beyond its borders as well." That multiplicity of spaces grounds his...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...promotional photographs. Their images depict the Ybor City Museum, a converted Cuban bakery on the grounds of Ybor City State Park. They speak to Ybor City's later role as a...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...of the Ohio, together numbered approximately one hundred thousand troops as they approached the city, but only about twenty-seven thousand of them fought in the Battle of Atlanta.11Woodworth, Nothing But...