Our Backward Revolution
...movement has proved successful in carrying out its long-term strategy of promoting libertarian ideas and policies into the mainstream, ideas once dismissed as the work of Ayn Rand cranks and...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...comprehend the horrendous injustice of slavery, the kidnapping of millions of people from Africa, the stealing of their lives from them, and then the theft of their labor for hundreds...
Genres of Southern Literature
...for southern literature. This tradition is not without irony, given the other directive that has long governed southern literary study: the emphasis on promoting "internal" or a-historical, non-contingent readings of...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...by hand, using the coding view in Dreamweaver. I tried to code it all in xhtml. As we brought on additional students to help—Sarah Toton, Steve Bransford, Paul O'Grady, Jere...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...by Grant Hamilton. Uncle Sam and President William McKinley celebrate the US victory in America's war with Spain while other nations note America's military might and overseas expansion. The title...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
..."Historical Consciousness and Women's Activism," in Gender and Globalization: Patterns of Women's Resistance, eds. Ligaya Lindio-McGovern and Erica Polakoff (Willowdale, Ontario: de Sitter Publications, 2010); Delfino and Gillespie, eds., Global...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...came to have the support of the Gay Political Caucus and the Metropolitan Community Church, both organizations invested in promoting the respectability of gay people. Time would prove the MCA's...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...American representatives helped to write new southern state constitutions mandating public schools as an essential duty of state governments. W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880 (New York: MacMillan,...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...Cohen came to observe an economic depression and the music and culture of the Mountain South that possessed his heart and mind.5Michael Harrington, The Other America: Poverty in the United States (New...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...Opossum Farm," Democratic Northwest (Napoleon, OH), Dec. 19, 1889, 4, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84028296/1889-12-19/ed-1/seq-4/. John Rand's ranch in Louisiana, in 1892;55"State News," St. Landry Clarion (Opelousas, LA), May 7, 1892, 1, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064250/1892-05-07/ed-1/seq-1/. an...