Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...selected to at least four of the magazine's exclusive lists. FedEx appears on five in 2005: Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For, America's Most Admired Companies, World's Most Admired...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...spatial dimensions of Paulus's book are noteworthy as he considers how Haiti, the British West Indies, Texas, and Mexico influenced slaveholder and abolitionist thought, US domestic politics, and ideas about...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...Mississippi Poultry Commission, Forest Vertical File, Forest Public Library, Forest, Mississippi, 1963. With processing facilities expanding, production and profit steadily increased. B.C. Rogers, a Scott County plant and the second...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...by W.L. Shepard. Originally published in Harper's Weekly (January 1, 1881) XXV., No. 1253, 5. Image produced by ProQuest LLC as part of ProQuest® HarpWeek Archive. www.proquest.com. Image published with...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...immigration. In 1991, when the earliest footage was shot, most east Tennessee residents were not aware of the growing numbers of Latino immigrants. But some of the women on the...
"No Deadline Short of the Grave": The Photographs of Paul Kwilecki
...of his perspective across decades of "staying put." Self-portrait taken at the request of a magazine, December 1985. Photograph by Paul Kwilecki. Courtesy of Tom Rankin. About the Author Tom...
"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...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...County, State of Georgia, United States, Including Numerous Incidents of More Than Local Interest, 1540–1922 (Atlanta, GA: The Webb and Vary Co., 1922), 33–4; Jerry R. Desmond, Georgia's Rome: A Brief...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...system. Georgia became the first southern state to pass a constitutional amendment enabling the legislature to send state, county, and municipal funds to "citizens of the State for educational purposes,...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...to the South and the southeastern United States throughout, but provides no explicit definition of either, coming closest when observing that reservoirs "dot the landscape from Mississippi east to Georgia...