The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...the Spartanburg Herald on May 19, 1875, offered "Singer's celebrated sewing machines, the cheapest and the best sewing machine, for sale on easy terms." In the same issue, McK. Johnstone...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...the town's industrial capacity and access to natural resources and cheap labor. As Spears notes, Anniston was founded as an experiment during Reconstruction and by the 1880s had been dubbed...
"Aint that Something?"
...addiction, and oxy in particular, hit Eastern Kentucky hard. Recently, many users have been turning to heroin, the cheaper alternative. In 2013, there were estimates of over a thousand deaths...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...an imported contagion, claiming, for instance, "that white Texas drovers imported racist violence into the state's cattle towns" (34). White Kansans often asserted that "racist violence would always be foreign—no...
Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye
...of the oral history program at the University of North Texas. A historian of the American civil rights movement, he directed the National Park Service's Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland." King's empathetic analysis brought to light many of...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...remain in flow and balance. Over the following decades many more followed while others headed for the Mexican province of Texas in search of respite from Anglo-American encroachments. By 1830,...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...Juan, Puerto Rico (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999). This centralizing goal built on an ideology of excess and discipline that connected the anemic peasant to other social maladies. As...
Forgotten Locavores: Letters and Literature of Market Bulletins
...Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, writes about food, gender, race, and class in the US South. She is lead author of Republic of...
The Bulletin—June 19, 2013
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. The Texas Senate has passed a bill that places new restrictions on abortion providers. Governor Rick Perry added the bill, which is predicted...