Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...to understand the critical acclaim. Its pages crackle with the nervous energy of good writing. No tour guide, before or since—and there have been several good ones—has done a better...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...lights on, businesses like Wal-Mart are becoming the major employers. When mines close and the number of miners decreases, company housing may deteriorate, be abandoned, or replaced by mobile homes....
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...high number but nothing like comparative statistics in the central or southern parts of the state.59For a good understanding of these numbers, see Megginson, African American Life, 8. Consider how...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...a sensitivity to African Americans unimaginable at the time of the centennial of the war. On the other hand, polls reveal that nearly half the people in the nation believe...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...evolutionary and ecological time scales. Biotic communities, as known during historical times, assembled only since the last major glaciation, or, the past 20,000 years. Like other southeastern vegetational assemblages, the...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...Calhoun, who defended states' rights—or state sovereignty—and slavery "in the slaveholding States . . . instead of an evil, a good—a positive good."4John C. Calhoun, "Slavery a Positive Good," TeachingAmericanHistory.org,...
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...
Palomares Bajo
..."Spain: After the Fall," Time, 24 January 1969, at http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,900563-1,00.html (accessed 13 May 2011). Insensitive to ironies of causality, Blashill wrote that the six tomato crop failures "may well be...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...several mutually antagonistic groups into the Waxhaw congregation, and he established and ministered at times to some twelve other churches in the region. It was his death, however, that most...
Besieged Terrain
...Almost all the big timber companies operating in the southern states at the time were northern. Having cut the forests in the northeast, they were looking for virgin stands. With...