Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...in the world, the people in Central Appalachia, including those near my home in the southern West Virginia coalfields, are among the poorest people in the United States. Poverty rates...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...of ex-slaves in what was to become the United States.6See Kathleen Deagan and Darcie MacMahon, Fort Mose: Colonial America's Black Fortress of Freedom (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995); and...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...of environmental activists came from all over the United States—mostly the eastern United States—but there were kids from New England, from the South, and they were working with a local...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...December 4, 1944, 7. Top, Areas of the continental United States believed to be malarious in 1934–1935. Map courtesy of Medical Department, United States Army, Preventative Medicine in World War...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...gradual path to extinction in parts of the United States and on a more immediate one in Haiti. In the 1830s this international movement reached its apex as the British...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...unquestionably clear is that the twins by this time had adopted the mindset, in all its permutations, of the oppressor class, the whites who owned slaves. In September 1845, they...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...infrastructure to prevent the immigrants from coming into the United States. I don't want to imagine the United States investing in technology would kill off any human being who even...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...© United States Postal Service. By reframing the history of coastal Carolina, Mulcahy succeeds in rendering "both the Lowcountry and the islands less anomalous within the larger context of colonial...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...realization of race and class continues to be Sutpen's epiphany in Absalom, Absalom! after he is turned away, pointedly classified, by the well-dressed doorkeeper of a Tidewater residence and sent...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
Review Sarah Mayorga-Gallo's Behind the White Picket Fence explores how race, class, and ethnicity shape daily life and power sharing in "Creekridge Park," a pseudonymous multiethnic neighborhood located in Durham, North Carolina. In the early...