Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...vision of Louisiana in the documentary classic Louisiana Story. The making of that Louisiana story follows Flaherty's standard format. He created "narrative documentaries," what we might call today "docudramas." But...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
"Quilt given to Rosa Benson Snoddy by her mother & father when she married Col. Sam Snoddy. For Mary Kate Black." Whole-cloth chintz quilt, probably made by Nancy Miller...
Religion and the US South
...Anglican ministers had respected social and political authority and allied themselves with the gentry, and upper-class southerners would long admire the Anglican embrace of social class differences, along with paternalistic...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...class of postwar chemicals, with as much ambivalence and precaution as many privileged experts did, if not more. Lastly, this record supports—and sheds light on—otherwise offhand references to popular resistance...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...able to create a pro-business environment, even marketing the reservation as a shelter from lawsuits (204). Group of Choctaw men, a young woman and a young girl posed outdoors, probably...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...based that the class structure of the region consists only of poor/working-class people and elites? The field has produced no studies describing the size, nature, distribution, and impact of an...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...consistent with the model sketched out by Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss in their classic anthropological study, Primitive Classification (1963): the basic principles of social organization structure visions of the...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...representatives of labor unions from across the country—longshoremen, flight attendants, municipal employees, as well as members of the United Mine Workers of America from West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania,...
Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye
...left), Portrait of Tuskegee airman Edward M. Thomas, standing (bottom center), Col. Benjamin O. Davis, full-length portrait, and Edward C. Gleed, wearing flight gear, standing next to airplane, and looking...
Cajun South Louisiana
...the Canary Islands, and such Native American tribes as the Houma, Bayou Goula, and Choctaw. A big aligator, about 800 lbs. Photograph by ST Blessing. Courtesy of The Miriam and...