In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...Survival and Struggle," in My Troubles Are Going to Have Trouble with Me: Everyday Trials and Triumphs of Women Workers, eds. Karen Brodkin Sacks and Dorothy Remy (New Brunswick: Rutgers...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...for Human Rights, 1944-1955 (Cambridge, U.K.; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003). As Mississippian Ellie Dahmer stated about the 1966 assassination of her husband and local National Association for the...
Anniversary
Readings Jake Adam York reads the poem "Anniversary." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Consolation." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Darkly." Poem text. Jake Adam...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...Burkholder, "Housing as a Human Right: Community Movement Builders Organize Against Gentrification," Georgia Voice, April 21, 2022, https://thegavoice.com/today-in-gay-atlanta/housing-as-a-human-right-community-movement-builders-organize-against-gentrification/; "Who are We?" Food4Lives, Accessed June 22, 2023, https://food4lives.org/about.html. Both organizations preceded...
Sowing The Seed Underground
Presentation Part 2: Ray overviews the modern extinction of many food seed varieties and the industrialization of US agriculture About the Author Janisse Ray was born in Baxley, Georgia, in 1962...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...University, 2016). Meanwhile, journalists and individuals across Sacred Harp's geography associated the style with "old-fogy" rural southern white culture in decline and regularly foretold the style's extinction in the southern...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...been funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. He has also held a Postdoctoral Fellowship for Advanced Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences from the Andrew...
My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetery
...by her own design removed, is buried in the corner, outermost plot, with no one near, her married name the only sign she belongs. And at that, she could be...
Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
...made a quilt, unlike any of the others in this collection, from nine identical red bandanna handkerchiefs. The printed handkerchief with its bright color and the agreeable design evokes the...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...to the appalling sounds, or the vivid flashes from the batteries, they stood for hours fascinated with horror" (33). In "Eyeing First Bull Run," Smith discusses how commanders on both...