Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...nineteen months. Starting in 1812, Charles Tinney was listed several times in local District of Columbia newspapers as receiving letters at the city post office. On December 2, 1817, he married...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...days at a time over the course of twelve summers and using the same actors throughout, we watch the maturation of not just a young man, but also his family...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...the winter months, and invest their gains in labor-saving machinery, such as tractors. Between 1936 and 1941, the Bootheel's tenancy rate—which measured the number of those who did not own...
Palomares Bajo
..."Spain: After the Fall," Time, 24 January 1969, at http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,900563-1,00.html (accessed 13 May 2011). Insensitive to ironies of causality, Blashill wrote that the six tomato crop failures "may well be...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...men in the wake of the Civil Rights movement. Metzl argues that this was an intentional act occurring at the same time as pharmaceutical advertising which cast the Black man...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...politics with a local voter. Then Taylor heads underground: "For in the cave you forget that there is an outer world somewhere above you. The hours have no meaning: Time...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...evolutionary and ecological time scales. Biotic communities, as known during historical times, assembled only since the last major glaciation, or, the past 20,000 years. Like other southeastern vegetational assemblages, the...
Our Backward Revolution
...semi-slavery. Written in 1964 at the crest of the civil rights movement, Rose’s last chapter, “Revolutions May Go Backward,” was a cautionary warning to the optimists of her time. Today...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...But, at the same time, each of these images invites us to look at Appalachia—to see Appalachia and what it signifies in this particular image. These multiple, at times contradictory...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...high number but nothing like comparative statistics in the central or southern parts of the state.59For a good understanding of these numbers, see Megginson, African American Life, 8. Consider how...