Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...with Miners for Democracy and the United Mine Workers Journal, Earl Dotter was one of the first to document miners' fights for better healthcare, pensions, working and living conditions. As...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...mob killings. Whereas crowds threatening mob violence murdered their victims approximately thirty-four percent of the time between 1865 and 1894, they did so only eight percent of the time between...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...never seen any place like this before. I had grown up in the Clearwater–Tampa Bay area, which was then probably three hours or more down the road. There are better...
Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
...“Danielle” (Bethany Harris), “Dollar” (Billy Oxendine), and “Connie” (Antoinette Locklear Hurtt) I also know from doing history that if we can talk about how this history came to be, we...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...and McLane note, "The dramatis personae of the Flaherty films are the nuclear family structured along conventional lines."7Jack C. Ellis and Betsy A. McLane, A New History of Documentary Film, (NY:...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...a growing interest not just in maintaining existing theaters, but in constructing new ones.7"Drive-in Theater Search," Drive-ins.com, http://drive-ins.com/srchdest.htm?name=&city=&code=al&status_op=open&search.x=13&search.y=12. Six of Alabama's ten drive-ins opened since 1996.8Calvin R. Trice, "Couple seek...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...(Source: "Shooting the Chutes," Atlanta Constitution (April 9, 1896), pg. 10. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, privately-owned amusement parks dotted the American landscape, and by 1920, between...
The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
...in 2003, they remain in the Virginia Code. A federal appeals court specifically struck down this statute this March in the course of a case where an adult male solicited...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...regions of the United States, University of Mississippi ethnohistorian Robbie Ethridge’s work brings the concept of the “shatter zone” to bear on the history of contact between settlers and Native...
1108 Dynamite Hill
...line between white and Black property: white residents on the west side and Black residents on the east side. Ignoring Jim Crow, Drew's family and other Black families crossed the...