Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...high number but nothing like comparative statistics in the central or southern parts of the state.59For a good understanding of these numbers, see Megginson, African American Life, 8. Consider how...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...continue beyond the first half of 2010. From June 2009 through March 2010, the number of jobless workers continued to grow in the South and the West. The number of...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...is natural to any one thinking that it is pleasant to be one.... Once in talking and saying that in America the best material is used in the cheapest things...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...are interested in opening up the U.S. to their cars—and are getting a boost from the falling dollar, since they can sell cars produced in the U.S. cheaper than they...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...modalities and transdisciplinary vocabularies for comparing creative works across the broader Caribbean. About the Author Aaron Witcher is a PhD Candidate in French and Francophone Studies at The Pennsylvania State...
Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India
...While the nuclear family— the small, intimate unit of a loving husband, wife, and children—emerges as an ideal, this smaller modern family often includes older generations (grandparents and sometimes great-grandparents),...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) branch chief who served in the agency's COVID-19 response from late March through June 2020, the profusion of "lessons learned" reflects the magnitude...
Image Credits
...KQED, San Francisco, California, September 11, 1961. Screenshot by Eric Solomon, March 2018. Title screenshot from "The Homosexuals," originally aired CBS television, March 7, 1967. Screenshot by Eric Solomon, March 2018....
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...Once again, only a faulty fuse saved the synagogue.3Albert Vorspan to I. Cyrus Gordon, Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, March 3, 1958, "Attempted Dynamiting of North Carolina Synagogues,"...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...the summer of 1938. By taking to the road, Daniels was following the lead of a number of writers who set out to see the United States in the midst...