Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...of Private Letters," Boston (MA) Evening Transcript, August 11, 1849. See also John, "Hiland Hall's 'Report on Incendiary Publications'," 275. Barrett sat in the Spartanburg jail throughout the summer. And while...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...Gazette-Mail (WV), April 12, 1994; "All About Business," Charleston Daily Mail (WV), April 26, 1994. Utility companies recognized the importance of obtaining quality coal as cheaply as possible. For example, American...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...doubled, at once opening and closing, losing and then finding itself in its own cheap performance" (180). These kinds of juxtapositions are the crux of what Comentale identifies as "vernacular...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...134,106 347,144 11% 22% 213,038 45% Combined 855,997 1,319,920 68% 75% 463,923 98% Atlanta 250,769 222,432 61% 53% -28,337 -6% Remainder of MSA 99,720 137,627 4% 4% 37,907 8% MSA...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...lot of crazy people ride this ferry, and they have to sit on the other side."4Reed, 11–12. Reed's vignette echoes forms of sly resistance, such as that recalled by Mississippi...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...apparent to those who looked.3Nicholas Natanson, The Black Image in the New Deal: The Politics of FSA Photography (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992), 3-4, 113-26 (quotes p. 126). As...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...forty years to overturn the Brown decision. School Choice Programs in the United States, 2019. Map by Steve Suitts. Courtesy of the Southern Education Foundation. In the short run, the...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...E-mail correspondence and telephone conversation, April 20–21, 2009. In future disasters, search and rescue personnel will abandon the painted graphics used after Katrina, and proceed stocked with stacks of low-residue...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...with her tutor, the son of a Boston merchant, despite the fact that she "had been brought up to look with contempt on the whole [northern] race" (112). What follows...
Forgotten Locavores: Letters and Literature of Market Bulletins
...at Chapel Hill for digitizing the 1920s market bulletins from Raleigh, North Carolina, which appear in the video. This presentation, given at Woodruff Library at Emory University, April 24, 2012,...