Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, DC
...how Scott and Huntington cultivated political “friendships” to gain corporate influence in federal government Part 4: White addresses questions about the on-going significance of transcontinental railroads and competition About Richard White:...
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...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...that individual acts of racist violence occurred in their state but minimize their significance by declaring each successive one an aberration — infrequent, uncharacteristic, and even unprecedented — rather than...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...promoted her debut through advertisements and well-placed references, Adrienne succeeded in gaining the attention of more than ten Boston area newspapers. For the most part, the reviews were glowing. "She...
Remnants of Flannery
...calls her "flanvas," which she made herself.6Ibid. Travis Ekmark's art for the zine. Portrait by Travis Ekmark. Courtesy of Travis Ekmark and Brooke Hatfield. During a July 29 event to promote...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...with his meticulous and elegantly written Rough Country. First, in 2015, Texas governor Greg Abbott signed into law a bill allowing Texas residents to openly carry handguns in public spaces...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...gold). Enjoying widespread radio play, sold-out concerts, and high record sales, Kee won the hearts of thousands of gospel lovers with his signature voice and classic songs. Not since James...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...York: Knopf, 1995). Equally significant, Caldwell and photographer Margaret Bourke-White published You Have Seen Their Faces in November 1937, just as Daniels was completing his book. An Emerging Documentary Ethos...
Image Credits
...Street" sign, New York, August 29, 2013. Photograph by Flickr user Luciano Alves, Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. Historic NYC Mattachine sign, New York, August 6, 2011. Photograph by Flickr user Marty...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...Bob Marley," Publisher's Weekly, December 8, 2014. Cover of Ann Pancake's Strange as this Weather Has Been (Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press/Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007). Cover design by Gerilyn Attebery featuring...