Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, DC
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: Part 2: White describes the lengths both men went to in an attempt to gain subsidies and credit for their respective railroads Part 3: White shows...
Mississippi Delta
...labor shortage that promoted the consolidation of farm lands, diversification of crops beyond cotton, and the mechanization of plantations. Beginning with the Dixiecrat movement of the 1948 presidential campaign, the...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...tradition but also ensured that gospel remained embedded in African American culture. That embeddedness has surfaced in a variety of cultural contexts and arenas and continues to do so: BET's...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...2.6 jobs for American workers. Asian immigrants frequently come with or earn advanced degrees. What are the policy implications of this phenomenon for the region? What does this blind spot...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...unmixed with Negro blood,” reads an excerpt from a letter by the head of the Bureau of Statistics explaining that under Virginia’s 1924 Racial Integrity Law, Indians would be relabeled...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...often treats immigration to the South as either so transformative that it replaces local and regional historical geographies of race, place, and labor or so different from past practices that...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...and well-preserved Native American (Guale) shellring on the northwestern corner of the island gives evidence that humans have experienced Sapelo for at least 4,500 years. The arrival of the Spanish...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...have transformed its landscapes for at least 4,000 years. Its human history is similar to that of its island neighbor, St. Catherines, beginning with Native Americans (the Guale). The Guale...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...and two together from what he'd told me. His squad didn't do that more than a couple days. The officers immediately realized that it wasn't working, that it was dangerous,...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...Parcel and Taylor point out that "the heightened partisanship and polarization that was taking place in national, state, and county politics" coincided with the controversy over Wake's school policies: "Events...