Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...service stations float in the road's middle, serving as places of respite along the 264-mile expanse. It is as though you are riding the currents at a controlled seventy miles...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...this map, click here. At the most distant zoom level, only Stevens mills with significant union action are labeled. The larger the marker the greater the number of employees and...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...When those jobs disappeared, no other industry filled the gap and more people entered the low-wage service economy, surviving with little in the way of workplace benefits or economic security....
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...political geography to denote borderlands, especially ones to which members of subject or refugee populations migrated in large numbers to escape the pressures of the state and/or the capitalist economies...
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...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...Winding mountain roads and insular hamlets have meant long bus rides for school children and extended trips for basic services such as food and health care. Twenty-five percent of Madison...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...to the memory of Bob Hammond 1858 to 1923 and Billy Mitchell 1886 to 1958 Who together contributed 95 years Of faithful and efficient service to "Old Emory" Dedicated June...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...Harbor, just south of the city's previously moribund but now skyrocketing downtown. As one journeys southwest, going upstream, the creek services a working port (properties now eyed for luxury housing)....