Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Memphis is positioned at a strategic interstate crossroads in the middle of the United States, midway between Monterrey, Mexico, and Toronto, Canada. A new interstate highway, I-69, the NAFTA superhighway...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...come to the United States. Increasing numbers found their way, as Rudy did, to the Southeast. Migrants did not disperse evenly, but settled in clusters and hot spots. The new...
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...
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...
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,...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...Administration," The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts 8 (Spring 1988): 6-13. Arthur Rothstein, State highway officials moving sharecroppers away from roadside to area between the levee and the Mississippi...
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...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...ways to buy into the false dichotomy that pits artistic performance against documentary, to suggest that art somehow makes reality false, and moreover that there is a recoverable pure, real,...