"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...role the affair played in the clash and ultimate split between the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union and the Congress of Industrial Organizations rather than the understandings and motivations of the...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...reissued his book American Photographs (1939) in 1962 and mounted a retrospective and a published catalog in 1971. Eggleston worked through and against this legacy, bringing pop-art color and drama,...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
Review "I don't need a map to tell me where I am today." —Mike Cooley The Drive-By Truckers have always done their best and most arresting work about place. They...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...clear is she was enslaved or free. (For more information on Seneca quarry, and a discussion of this ledger book, see the forthcoming book, Garrett Peck, Seneca Castle and the...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...Bistro, accessed July 19, 2022, http://www.1826bistro.com/. A bookstore overlooks the Green as do gift stores and a Mexican café.70"Home," The Pendleton Bookshop, accessed July 25, 2022, https://www.pendletonbookshop.com/; "Welcome to Vaquaros...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...spatial dimensions of Paulus's book are noteworthy as he considers how Haiti, the British West Indies, Texas, and Mexico influenced slaveholder and abolitionist thought, US domestic politics, and ideas about...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...online presentation from the University of Texas Press new Katrina Bookshelf Series. The book series is edited by Prof. Kai Erikson, former president of the American Sociological Association. Below is...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...of Central Appalachia. The new standards, enacted to protect the environment by reducing toxic air emissions, acid rain, and urban air pollution, had the unexpected, ironic effect of decimating thousands...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...Formulas of the Cherokees (Asheville, NC: Historical Images, Bright Mountain Books, 1992), 517. See also The Payne-Butrick Papers, ed. William L. Anderson, Jane L. Brown, and Anne F. Rogers, vol....
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...at Appalachia each photograph speaks to "Appalachia" in its own way, while commenting upon the reality that other images purport. Looking at Appalachia offers a mosaic of disparate images in...