Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...city that had virtually no experience with this form of labor recruitment sites before. These sorts of informal hiring sites, of course, exist all over southern California, and now are...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...Those authors live in Cuba, yes, but they have recognized international careers. Ulises was tremendously successful in Mexico with a work that curiously reconstructs the trajectory of another exiled artist,...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...1850 and 1860 provide population statistics by nation of origin, providing the total number of German-born in each state. Compiled from the Original Returns of the Eighth U.S. Census 1860a-04,...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...Americas. Some half-million enslaved arrived at forty-one documented sites in the United States. At these arrival ports a significant portion of American history began. Relying principally upon information from Voyages:...
Our Backward Revolution
...number of lawsuits challenging these tax-exempt segregated schools, a policy eventually affirmed by the Supreme Court in Bob Jones v. United States (1983). Right-wing Republican activists like Paul Weyrich claimed...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...that miracles sometimes occur.1The official name of the tribe located in present-day Oklahoma is the Muscogee Creek Nation. The word, in the language, for what Creek people speak is "Mvskoke," pronounced...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...Petrochemical America, his impressive collaboration with landscape architect Kate Orff. A site more common than plantation houses along the Louisiana River Road, a pipe rack is a collection of bracketed-together...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...assist them, built the mission and fort of Apalachicola on the west bank of the Chattahoochee River. This site, located in Russell County, Alabama, lies about fifteen miles south of...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...Leavell revisits the site of the logging operation to explain how the loading deck is transformed to a feed plot. https://vimeo.com/126311258 Part 3: March 15, 2005: Leavell returns to discuss...
The Crowd He Becomes
...have done it it wouldn't have been alone, he would have had a driver and a man out west to phone in threats to draw the cops away. They'd ease...