You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...accessed March 8, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/opinion/sunday/we-need-somebody-spectacular-views-from-trump-country.html; John Saward, "Welcome to Trump County, USA," Vanity Fair, February 24, 2016, accessed March 8, 2017, http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/02/donald-trump-supporters-west-virginia; Larissa MacFarquhar, "In the Heart of Trump Country,"...
Congregation
...from the car, take away the generator, the air conditioner, whatever there was to be had. He watched his phone for a signal, watched the sky for signs of a...
The Liminal Site
...Avenue intersects Twenty-first. We float on red Alabama clay between service and industry, between Birmingham's present skyline of banks and hospitals and its past mine railroad, between midcentury modern houses...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...North Carolina, January 2014, http://www.ourstate.com/womans-college-greensboro/. By the time Jones and her four freshman cohorts arrived on campus they found themselves segregated in one section of one dormitory, and the target of...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...count on one hand the number of writers given high administrative responsibility. Saxon was one of them, and maybe the most highly regarded of the lot. On several occasions Washington...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
..."My Chaffeur," recorded and popularized by the artist Memphis Minnie in 1941. https://vimeo.com/396689526/cb33ae32d2 Precious Bryant performs "My Chauffeur." Recorded by Steve Bransford in Waverly Hall, Georgia, 2003. Courtesy of Steve...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...showing the locations of Brownsville, Laredo, and Eagle Pass, 1882. Courtesy of Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, catalog number 98688791. Fevered Measures surveys smallpox and yellow fever epidemics...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...such public recognition of their services to the community is essential to raising public and private funds to support their services. I'm convinced that producing and presenting exhibitions, concerts, theater...
Good-Bye to All That?
...the number of challengers in 2016 is likely to decline even further. Our neighboring South Carolina offers a window into the future. In this most recent election less than 25...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...us. At least she no longer faces the "threat of murder," after her surgery. https://vimeo.com/389587403/1476146255 "They don't pick up the phone and call people anymore." 42:56–43:03 from The Joneses. Bunny...