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
...interview local African American civil rights leaders and publish news about their movement. "The news media in Danville," one radio station editorial argued on June 6, 1963, "has made every...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...worked all their lives. That most physicians have never been in a coal mine (much less worked in one), and that some have never even been in the coalfields, serves...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...the Spartanburg Herald on May 19, 1875, offered "Singer's celebrated sewing machines, the cheapest and the best sewing machine, for sale on easy terms." In the same issue, McK. Johnstone...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...character of Antoine Doinel, played by Jean-Pierre Léaud.2The films in the Antoine Doinel series are: The 400 Blows (1959 feature), Antoine and Colette (1962 short), Stolen Kisses (1968 feature), Bed...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...town. But it needs to be broader than that, it needs to be international. We need to rethink our free trade agreements. We need to think about the little people...
"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
...Florida panther. Prevalent trees included sweetgum, hackberry, cottonwood, persimmon, and river cane, the latter growing in dense patches. Picking cotton in some of the poorer land, Mississippi Delta, near Clarksdale,...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...badge. But the “thin blue line” can’t save him from a past of parental neglect and abuse. He crosses some other line, and in an instant, everything is gone. With...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...post-Civil Rights, neoliberal America, could undermine the whole project. Finally, scholars are beginning to get over that reluctance. New work by Jennifer Thomson, Paul Sabin and Keith Woodhouse, for example,...