Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...at 94 in 1982. During the 1980s, Houston endured the double impact of HIV/AIDS and the long economic fallout of the 1981 oil bust. The number of queer businesses began...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...willing to understand their way of life and to respect them as people who have something to offer in their way."28John Cohen, "Field-Trip – Kentucky," Sing Out!, vol. 10, no....
Encountering COVID
...you think that way? How can you think that way? It's Fox News. People have had it in their homes for so long. Fox was pitting us against each other,...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...the end of a neighborhood street. Richard and Dot Beasley opened the Starlite in 1952. At one time, the theater competed with the Hiway, the Autodrome, and the Midway in...
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...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...away. "Ridding Georgia of this troublesome population" As white Georgians mapped and planned and purchased, Cherokees found ways to resist state policy and citizen aggression. Ross maintained a strategy of...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...for some of the lowest paid and most dangerous jobs in the country.3For more on the poultry industry see Donald D. Stull and Michael J. Broadway, Slaughterhouse Blues: The Meat...
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...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...Nanook and his walrus and the men of Aran and their sharks, he does not—and never did—hunt them in the way Flaherty stages. In many ways, Boudreaux's life did imitate...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...classes were dismissed, several cars full of men were parked around the driveway entrance. Minutes earlier, a taxi had pulled up near the cars, and then driven away. When most...