Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...Freeman knows Oak Ridge from extensive ethnographic and archival research, and from personal experience. She was born there. Her grandparents lived there, and her grandfather was a soldier who trucked...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...and horseback. A 1924 Klan motorcade in Denver even saw the state's Grand Wizard escorted by the city's police officers.2Shawn Lay, The Invisible Empire in the West: Toward a New...
A Mess of Poke
...are rather stately. My Poke Sallet Granny My maternal grandmother, at least, kept eating poke sallet long after she no longer had to because she loved the stuff. Mee-Ma lived...
Work
...the machine room. My only factory stint. Never set foot in a towel mill. But that doesn't matter. I dreamed my mother's and grandmother's dreams. Dreams of clatter and snap,...
When the Border Crossed Me
...of helpers I'd found for one or two days a week earlier in the summer—three high school students and occasionally one of their grandmas who drove them to the farm—had...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...coal miners. Roughly two thousand people came out to the event, and many stopped to have their picture taken with "the grand old lady of the labor movement." Present were...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
...to your grandmother and ask her about her grandmother," she pleaded. Indeed, queer history is present in the way my parents reacted when I first came out, as they referenced...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...photograph of a soldier, likely drawn from the cache of images Bailey inherited from his grandmother.2 As Thompson notes in her catalogue essay “During his last year of art school,...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...taken up hookworm and pellagra as challenges. Funding for health reform began to increase after World War I. New Deal spending doubled the number of county health departments, from 396 in...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...for immigrants from Mexico who have come to live, work, and die in the United States (in quite significant numbers even in military service, to which the American establishment readily...