Threshing crew in the Tygart Valley, West Virginia, August 1936
...Tygart Valley, West Virginia, August, 1936. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Black & White Negatives Collection, LC-USF33-000720-M3. Carl Mydans, Threshing, Tygart Valley, West Virginia, August, 1936. Library of...
Writing Appalachia
...August Wilson, Dorothy Allison, Jeff Mann, and Blake Hausman. Top, I-81 completed section in Botetourt County, Virginia, July 30, 1962. Photograph by Flickr user Virginia Department of Transportation. Creative Commons...
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...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...the squeeze is on for profits in a glutted car market. Workers at Nissan can make a car in 15.74 labor hours—and then Nissan makes an average of $2069 in...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...York numbered approximately eight-hundred-thousand residents. Atlanta, by comparision, had a population of just above nine-thousand residents, making it the ninety-ninth largest city in America behind Hoboken, New Jersey; Columbus, Georgia;...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...and resource centers, to one based on firearms, slaves, and hides, which was exacerbated by the intrusion of European markets in Virginia and South Carolina. Beck is careful not to...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...analyses speculating on this literary emergence, see Allen Tate's "The Profession of Letters in the South," Virginia Quarterly Review 11 (1935), 161–176; C. Vann Woodward's "Why the Southern Renaissance?," Virginia...
A Virginia winter, Amherst County, Virginia, 2008
Virginia Tech campus from above, Blacksburg, Virginia, 2005
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...nineteenth century focuses on what became West Virginia, and is familiar to scholars and many residents of central Appalachia: extension of the railroads into southern West Virginia, corporate acquisition of...