"Aint that Something?"
...valley fills "have buried more than two thousand miles of headwater streams and polluted many more," according to the environmental organization Appalachian Voices. In addition, "Mountaintop removal mining has destroyed...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...principal labor for its mining and extraction. Following the war, when the price of saltpeter dropped dramatically, mining became unviable. In the decades that followed, as the cave emerged as...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...freshman in college, I lived and farmed with my grandfather and grandmother for a year. I had a strong pull towards farm preservation and sustainability, probably because I realized how...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...million dollars, and spent widely on mailers, door-to-door canvassing, phone banks and television ad buys. The leading opposition group, the Transportation Leadership Coalition, made do with little more than $14,000...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...Spaces would not have happened. In retrospect it's very surprising, if not a small miracle, that the support became available for this work at all. In 2001 the Andrew W....
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
The Shenandoah Valley
...transportation, migration, and development, after the Civil War it continued in this role. It was the corridor for regional development of new industries, mines, hotels, and railroads. Its leading citizens...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...like the big bass. It looks like a bass. So the musicians as I spoke about like Milford Dolliole and Tio with Chocolate Milk, which is a funk band—and there...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...real or imagined, subaltern sectors of society might be circumstantially permitted to occupy land on privately owned estates. Enslaved people might be granted time off to tend to a vegetable...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...Pop Sounds of a Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012); John Minton, 78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010). However, Comentale...