The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...state intervention and provide support for repressive policies and actions. Fevered Measures's greatest strength lies in its exploration of medical authority in a distinctive setting and relationship: contiguous nation-states sharing a...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...a Middle Passage port on the Rappahannock River.2Further study by a National Park Service historian reviewing data from the New York Historical Society provided more detail to support this "new"...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...problems: the climate crisis, issues of poverty, and racial inequalities. In order to secure the support of the popular sectors whose jobs will be affected, it contains several important proposals...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...zero for understanding working-class support for a billionaire who claimed to care about the "forgotten people" of America. This signposting allowed for an evasion of any deep analysis of racism...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...women's hard-won emancipation, expanding political consciousness, and support by an occupying federal military force. Briefly in the postbellum years, this alternative history achieved preeminence in Charleston's local reckoning with slavery....
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...coincidence, except that the mob did not simply shoot Potter where it found him. The lynchers evidently saw the dramatic potential of their violence; even without a crowd of supporters...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...Bessemer to support striking railroad workers in 1894, and a few years later, she took a job in a Tuscaloosa cotton mill to report on the wretched working conditions faced...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...employment, for instance? What, if any, role should mobile homes play in the region's housing infrastructure? How can we support the construction of affordable, energy-efficient, healthy, sustainable housing in the...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...a limited number of fabrics, but quiltmakers more often took advantage of the pattern's versatility to incorporate a variety of fabrics. As long as the majority of darker fabrics are...
Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895
...a number of improvements have taken place in the city. "Along the sweep of the nine-mile circle several attractive homes have been erected, and those who have not been in...