Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...Smithsonian grounds lay two of the most notorious 'slave pens' in the region, where persons of color, many of them kidnapped or arrested on the flimsiest of pretexts, were held...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...for Digital History at the University of Virginia and is co-editor of the Valley of the Shadow project at UVA. Acknowledgements I would like to thank Mary Catherine Wellons for...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...monthly payments can mean the difference between destitution and modest survival.4This estimate of the number of black lung beneficiaries is extrapolated from data on the number of claims filed each...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...large single tulip motif. Each tulip blossom has five points and is attached to a stem having two small leaves. Compared with other appliquéd floral patterns, these "Carolina" Tulip quilts...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...as its various members move around the state of Texas while always staying within each other's orbits. One antecedent for this project is François Truffaut's series of films following the...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
..."illegal," I am using it because they did. But, the audience, I knew, would also include people like David Caulkett of FLIMEN (FLoridians for IMmigration ENforcement) and John Parsons. Some...
"Aint that Something?"
...of Winter's Bone. Illustration by Jim Valentine, January 11, 2011. Courtesy of Jim Valentine. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 2.0. "Fuck You." © Robert Gipe, 2015. Originally published in Trampoline...
Mississippi Delta
...reaction to flooding, which continued to disrupt the agricultural economy. Delta people lived through eleven major floods between 1858 and 1922, but the 1927 Mississippi River flood was the worst...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...into the modern era by the cheap electricity and federal intervention of the New Deal's Tennessee Valley Authority. (There are two TVA songs in the Truckers catalogues.)2The two songs are...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...to consider environmentalism as a "field of movements" (5) that brings together actors, organizations and institutions from a variety of backgrounds at the local, regional, and national level. The field...