Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...infancy/beginning stage. In this stage, local citizens often trust that the coal company has their best interests at heart. They welcome the company for the employment and tax revenues it...
Whiskey and Geography
...the tax. The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 ensued. The uprising was best organized in Monongahela County in southwestern Pennsylvania, where Protestants from northern Ireland had settled. The protesters made counterresolutions,...
The Bulletin—November 29, 2012
...America Southern Part," 1818. From Pinkerton, J., A Modern Atlas, from the Latest and Best Authorities, Exhibiting the Various Divisions of the World with its chief Empires, Kingdoms, and States;...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...and often in the best interests of the enslaved. The greatest obstacle slaves faced to freedom, Duden believed, was their racial inferiority. He asserted that no amount of education or...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...levels of society? Tuba Fats did his part to keep the best of tradition and everybody loved him for it. How tragic and ironic that a violent death over street...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...of Civil War reenactors, at best, and, at worst, modern Kluxers, trying to mainstream. Southern whites have celebrated the family, racial, and historical meanings of the Lost Cause, but these...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...stupid, makes him see nothing beyond a short term gain, which is why I know more likely than not I'll be arriving too late, what's to be done best done...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...the ability to think, to ascertain available courses of action, and to then act in one's best interest. When that interest runs counter to that of one's captors—who here wanted...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...because we chose to live there. I could have easily lived somewhere in the suburbs, but it is best to go to the depressed areas to bring Islam." The way...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...overall. I am sure it has some safety concerns and people may not take the best care of their property or yours given the nature of the area. The area...