Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...of migration. An estimated two million Mexican farmers and farm workers lost their livelihoods as cheap US agricultural products, especially corn, flooded Mexican markets.14Monica Campbell and Tyche Hendricks, “Mexico's Corn...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
Review Christopher J. Manganiello opens Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region with a discussion of the drought that hit the...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...of restoring obscured linkages and connections. Matthew Mulcahy's Hubs of Empire: The Southeastern Lowcountry and British Caribbean does precisely this, presenting what became Carolina rice country as part of the...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...1918 New Hampshire Avenue. Joseph Elbert, Jr. a bricklayer, died in 1904 and was buried at Columbia Harmony Cemetery. Josephine Lucas Elbert, housekeeper, died August 24, 1924 and was buried at Columbia...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...system of linked places that persisted through the upheavals of the eighteenth century and continually challenged British notions of order and control. Paulett asserts that incompatible mapping between British ideals...
The Liminal Site
...in the City of Dreams (New York: Verso, 1996). Neither approach suffices. Afterword: The View from British Columbia In 2010, my wife and I moved to North Vancouver, British Columbia....
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...family in Columbia, South Carolina, and a cluster of black Clifton families between Columbia and the Savannah River—in the Barnwell County townships of Barnwell, Blackville, Bamberg and Diamond Hill, and...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...know what WVU is like now, but at that time we had a large number of out of state students, partly because our tuition was so cheap, and the whole...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...substantial construction also enables them to be easily and cheaply moved when threatened by the gradual encroachment of the sea, which upon many sections of the coast, effects in the...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...borrow the notion of "the thin black line" from the seminal black british visual artists' exhibition curated by Lubaina Himid in 1985. For the purpose of today's reflection, the "thin black line" resonates ideas about...