"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...hundred of them were white) sat down on the roadsides in protest. In over a dozen camps, large and small, they erected makeshift tents by draping blankets and sheets over...
Besieged Terrain
...The technique destroys forests, introduces heavy metals into drinking water, vastly increases erosion and flooding, and reduces the number of many species of birds, especially wood warblers, and other rare...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...he demands it. One thing I've noticed: he makes a lot of phone calls. Even when he could do a task alone with less effort, he takes time to involve...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...carrying her clothes, my unborn sister, nothing left of marriage but the cheap ring. There was her father, Lonnie, the house painter, in Lantana. Lonnie, always drinking, laughing at poverty....
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...flowers achieved with a limited number of colors and characteristic dotted backgrounds in black or blue." More expensive than everyday fabrics, the choice of an imported chintz for a wedding...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...disparate strands of evidence in Spanish, English, French, and indigenous language sources into a larger tapestry characterized by the irony of communication, she leaves a number of loose ends. Mentioning...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...in the 1970s" (2). Mellard examines how progressive country dialogued with an ideology that combined nostalgia for an imperial Texas with progressive political ideals. Referred to as "redneck rock" in...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...another. This technical proficiency is part of what makes 12 Years a Slave, like its predecessors, at times excruciatingly difficult to watch. Two scenes of extended torture are among the...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...uneven range of knowledge. Steel provides an accessible technical discussion of what makes Sacred Harp music tick, what makes the diverse range of tune types distinctive, how they have evolved,...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...the town's industrial capacity and access to natural resources and cheap labor. As Spears notes, Anniston was founded as an experiment during Reconstruction and by the 1880s had been dubbed...