DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...Georgia Archives. Colson's crusade against DDT began in 1945, the same year the pesticide emerged from the Second World War as an American miracle. First synthesized by an Austrian chemist...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...with the cost of flights and the initial recovery period in a hotel, it was cheaper to do so there than in the United States. Hearing her story, Ash insisted...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...the Greenbrier to greet protestors and shake hands with them. Most of them were students at Marshall University and West Virginia State College. Wallace meanwhile scoffed that "they're just practicing...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...Marion Post Wolcott. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. While these stereotypical depictions of the region exist across a broad range of media, photography has a...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...with a bloodied nose and blood-stained shirt. He stares straight at Pruitt, wounded but impassive or perhaps stunned to see a camera pointing at him. The white boy over his...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...to the press, including, most importantly, a reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. On January 7, Whitfield and 350 core followers gathered at the Sikeston First Baptist Church to hold...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...they tell a story central to Arlington and mirror an even larger story of black Americans who lived through the transitions from slavery to segregation. Here rest roughly 3,800 people...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...nation's bloodiest conflict, ensued in the South as a "War Between the States"—language that sustained the claim that southern states were not rebelling against the nation but were defending their...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...of an underwater statue by the English-Guyanese artist practicing off the coast of Grenada, Jason deCaires Taylor. No other image could better illustrate the parahuman agency Allewaert theorizes. The statue's...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...filling the room almost to the ceiling. The first impression is of sharp contrasts between black and white, a statement on binaries created by the structure of slavery on which...