Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985); C. Topalov, "Scientific Urban Planning and the Ordering of Daily Life: The First 'War Housing' Experiment in the United States, 1917–1919,"...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...were portrayed. Duval News Company, Old Slave Market, St. Augustine, Fla., Oldest City in the United States, c. 1915, recto. Collection of the Author. From "St. Augustine's 'Slave Market': A...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
Review Although scholars of the African diaspora have long acknowledged the persistence of African cultural forms within the musical, material, and linguistic cultures of African Americans in the United States,...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...1970s, at once geographical, ideological, and social. This group was in many ways remarkably similar to lesbian-feminist communities in other parts of the United States; its emergence can be traced...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...1939 (second quote), Folder "Tenant Farming, 1939-1944," Box 1, Official File 1650, FDR; Carey McWilliams, Ill Fares the Land: Migrants and Migratory Labor in the United States (Boston: Little, Brown,...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...labor-intensive to capital-intensive operations and, spurred by United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) subsidies, expensive machines and chemicals dominated remaining farms. Black farmers were often unable to obtain credit, information,...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...discounted the importance of slavery as a cause of the Civil War and posited that emancipation would have been inevitable regardless of the conflict; United Daughters of the Confederacy officers...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...codes of conduct—likely resulting in civil litigation. In Mississippi, second-class citizenship remains under the aegis of special "religious liberty" measures for a bigoted few. HB 1523 is an attack on...
The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
...gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli has launched a campaign to bring back Virginia's anti-sodomy law.1 The first proposed law on sodomy in the newly formed United States of America was introduced...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...the 1960s and 1970s, activists promoted a related golden-age vision of egalitarian pastoralism in pre-industrial Appalachia, which they contrasted with the ugliness of strip mining, black lung disease, and other...