"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...The total number of violent incidents identified in the sample undoubtedly represents only a fraction of those which actually transpired.16For an analysis of racist violence in Kansas, see Brent MacDonald...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...States. Yoknapatawphas All Raymond Andrews was forty-four when he published Appalachee Red (1978), which chronicles life after World War I in his fictional Muskhogean County, Georgia, a world that he...
The World of Chick-Fil-A and the Business of Sunbelt Evangelicalism
Presentation Part 2: Grem discusses conservative evangelical organizations and the rise of Christian small business in the twentieth century Part 3: S. Truett Cathy, evangelical and corporate America, Sunbelt politics, and...
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...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...to make a medicine, how to achieve peace. They were not people who inhabited a natural world; instead, the Cherokees were so implicated within the workings of the world that...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...Sea Island region. Safely isolated from such Old World sicknesses as influenza, smallpox, malaria, and yellow fever, they migrated seasonally to take full advantage of the coastal abundance. Nowadays, other...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...shared experience. Beginning with the successes and struggles of Austin Dabney—a Revolutionary War hero of mixed ethnicity—Jennison draws readers into the complex world of early Georgia. Like other forgotten Georgians...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...worlds, but similar issues. I continued developing my documentary skills and a few years later invited Michael Davey to join me as co-director a new film. I also produced a...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...and 1980s. Although the title of the book promises an emphasis on the post-World War II era, the first chapter is a robust examination of "Antecedents" to the modern movement....
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007