Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...between. You pass by the famous La Concha Hotel and the Cuban San Carlos Institute. You have a conversation with the doorman in Spanish; he tells you where to get...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...that all the stories worth telling—stories of love and betrayal, heartache and triumph, justice and oppression—could be found in one small corner of the world. Getting the stories right meant...
Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye
...from 2000 to 2005. He is the author of Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II (2010) and Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...a mediating role between the interests of the coal industry and the actions of the state. It facilitates apparent distance between corporate power and public policy, and seems to ground...
Writing Appalachia
...are, for example, obvious similarities between the poor mountain whites of Murfree and Fox, and their counterparts in the work of lowland southern authors Caldwell and O'Connor, who are not...
Emporia newspapers
The Emporia Times and Emporia Republican. "Nigger Assaults White Woman." July 14, 1905. NIGGER ASSAULTS WHITE WOMAN HOUSE OF MRS. LUSK ENTERED — NIGGER WAS CAPTURED AND IDENTIFIED BY...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...between Anglicans and the Presbyterians in the backcountry than about the Richardson marriage. He was resentful, for example, that one of his communion services was intentionally "interrupted by a Gang...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...the Protestant Apprentice Boys of Derry defended the city against the monarch's claim to divine right. More recently, the Free Derry civil rights movement represented a modern freedom struggle. On...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...the shining example of Henry Grady's New South ideology — seeking industrialization through northern capital and promising racial justice through segregation. But in spite of the city's aggressive promotion of...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...that this voting rights case was primarily a competition between the constitutional right of citizens to vote and the "constitutional equality of the States"—and held that states' rights won.2Coyle v....