Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...Peter, late of Montgomery Co, decd. Negro man Sandy over 50 years [valued at] $175 Negro man Dave over 50 years $200 Negro man George (?) over 50, $225 Negro...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...on Murrow to correct the sequence: "No Virginian was given the opportunity to say that token integration would be merely the opening wedge." Cover of TV Guide magazine featuring a...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...original book seeks answers to that question. My own introduction to black lung began in the winter of 1971–1972, when I came to West Virginia to work for the Black...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...also typical of southern quilts of the era in that the blocks are set solidly within a grid of wide fabric strips, called "sashing." She quilted around the edges of...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...partner in the movie is, fittingly, one of her own former students, a vet of the War on Terror who is ill-equipped to deal with Olivia's defiant children, in spite...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...stand, that she wouldn't want her elected officials to bash immigrants as so many of them continue to do. They do it to get votes whether their districts depend on...
"Aint that Something?"
...from opioid overdoses in Kentucky. "'Oxycodone,' Denny said." © Robert Gipe, 2015. Originally published in Trampoline (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015), 302. This material is used by permission of Ohio...
Mississippi Delta
...of cheap labor, on which Delta plantations depended. By 1910, tenants operated ninety-two percent of Delta farms, and ninety-five percent of those tenants were African American. New ethnic groups also...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...the MGs) in the studio and on the road. These influences have rubbed off on the Truckers. On Go-Go Boots, they remake themselves into an alt-country, Alabama blue-eyed soul band....
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...strands of environmentalism, giving them equal narrative and analytical weight. This book represents the culmination of a generation of scholarship on environmentalism that sought to expand our narrative in order...