Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...hot and humid environment. These guys were staying and working in 110, 115 degree heat with one hundred percent humidity, and the heat index at who knows what. They were...
"Aint that Something?"
...© Robert Gipe, 2015. Originally published in Trampoline (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015), 1, 58. This material is used by permission of Ohio University Press, www.ohioswallow.com. "I had had my...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...a manufacturing site. Ben Hains, Old Saltpeter Pipes, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, 1812, 1889. As Mammoth Cave was valued for its economic inutility, visitors also cherished the escape it offered from political...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...New Orleans, Louisiana, 1910. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-det-4a19873. "I Just Liked to Be in that Number": The Longshoremen Remember The transformative impact of...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...control the definition of this disease.2See Daniel M. Fox and Judith F. Stone, "Black Lung: Miners' Militancy and Medical Uncertainty, 1968–1972," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 54, no. 1...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...into the modern era by the cheap electricity and federal intervention of the New Deal's Tennessee Valley Authority. (There are two TVA songs in the Truckers catalogues.)2The two songs are...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...for holding back, but enabling change.3Ellen Glasgow, "The Dynamic Past," in Emily Clark and Paul Green, eds., The Reviewer 1:3 (March 15, 1921), 73-80. In a remarkable statement Glasgow explained...
Brushes with War
...Winslow Homer. Courtesy of the Portland Museum of Art, 1992.41. Near Andersonville, 1866. Oil on Canvas by Winslow Homer. Courtesy of the Newark Musem, 66.354. Prisoners from the Front, 1866....
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...Rare Book Library, March 29, 2016. Photograph by Kelly Gannon. Courtesy of Kelly Gannon. Today, as a doctoral student in Emory University's Institute for the Liberal Arts, I research contemporary...