Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...job and to function as engaged citizens of the global economy is honored and respected. "Looking Back and Ahead" offers our conclusion. Going South: A Trip to the Maquiladoras The...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and GQ, and selected for the anthologies Best American Short Stories, New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, and The O. Henry Awards' Prize Stories. His...
Encountering COVID
...was no help. And the state system was not equipped to handle the massive number of unemployment insurance claims. Before COVID, we usually had about 800 or so claims a...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...Of course, the very best sound is in the center of the hollow square. In this space, the singing is loudest and all four parts achieve their best balance. Many...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...During the Depression few people were willing to spring for the price of tickets, and drive-ins slowly appeared on the outskirts of other urban areas, such as Galveston, Texas, Los...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...bestseller for several weeks and received warm reviews from northerners and southerners, blacks and whites.3Jonathan Daniels, A Southerner Discovers the South (New York: Macmillan, 1938). All references are to this edition. Publishers Weekly listed A...
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...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...As rising tension elevated the potential for violence, numbers increasingly favored the Georgians. Fewer than nine thousand Cherokees lived on land sought by nearly 220,000 Georgians and awarded to 54,500...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
Bransford: Before we talk about An Unflinching Look: Elegy for Wetlands, can you talk about your personal history with the Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge? And then describe the Refuge in...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...visited as "examples" or as propaganda. "I didn't want to point out, 'Look at the poverty here' or 'Look at what the capitalist system has done.'"67Cohen interview; Joel Agee, interviewed...