Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...the middle of the eighteenth century, a diversity of peoples in what the Spanish called la tierra adentro—literally "the land inside"—communicated and mis-communicated with each other. Informed Power's insufficient spatial...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...of Slavery: Labor, Capital, and World Economy (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2003). Just as abolitionists understood themselves within a worldwide network in opposition to bondage, slaveholders envisioned their...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...to levels of roughly 19,000 parts per million (at the time, federal standards advised consuming fish with no more than 5 ppm). But the company kept the results under wraps,...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...the word "romantic" or "romanticism" in this essay, I am taking my definition from Michael Lowy and Robert Sayre who argue in Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity, that "Romanticism...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...hungry. I know what it is when you have a child."28Testimony of Louise Bailey at the congressional field hearings on national labor law reform, the Roanoke Rapids Civic Center, Roanoke...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...the city then swung east and north around McPherson's exposed flank they could rout the Yankees in a surprise attack and capture or destroy the large number of Federal supply...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
Review Understanding the creation of social spaces in an unfamiliar landscape is, according to Robert Paulett, a productive way to account for eighteenth-century developments in the American Southeast, particularly in...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...South Carolina. And, less than one century later, multiethnic towns would again extend across the South. In Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South, Robin Beck uses an...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal."16Toni Morrison, "No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear," The...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...occurred in Metro Atlanta, including Gwinnett County (up 215%) and Cobb County (up 159%).5US Bureau of the Census 2000. Changing Faces in Public Schools Many Metro Atlanta public schools are...