"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009). If discovered in such venues, military personnel faced certain punishment, if not discharge.16Gohlke, "Off-Limits." A native white Texan and...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...America (UMWA) had arisen, succeeded in a special election for leadership of the union, then disintegrated; the black lung movement had seemingly disappeared; and a storm of reaction was sweeping...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...vol. 3, Record Group 60, Washington, DC; cited in Mark Laurence Goldstein, "Capital and Culture: William Wilson Corcoran and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America" (PhD diss., University of Maryland, 2015), 30–31....
St. Catherines Island Flyover
Video and Essay One of the barrier islands along the Georgia coast of the Atlantic Ocean, St. Catherines has an extraordinary ecological and settlement history. First inhabited more than four...
The Colonialist's Gaze
...appearance or dress. Anemia caused by hookworm decimated Puerto Rican rural workers. After the discoveries of Dr. Bailey Ashford, an effective clinical treatment became available in 1904.1For more on Ashford...
The World of Chick-Fil-A and the Business of Sunbelt Evangelicalism
Presentation Part 2: Grem discusses conservative evangelical organizations and the rise of Christian small business in the twentieth century Part 3: S. Truett Cathy, evangelical and corporate America, Sunbelt politics, and...
The Change
...their slaves they brought from Africa when they sold our ancestors as slaves in the Middle East, that then the tobacco was sacred to all of us and we prayed...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...way America exerts power over other countries and exploits them. JAMES: Did you see similarities or connections between class inequalities or exploitation in West Virginia, and American Samoa as part...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker S. Wright Kennedy is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Rice University. His primary area of interest is the integration...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...from the mid-nineteenth century by artists from America, Africa, and the Caribbean,"5"About Us," Hammonds House Museum. http://www.hammondshouse.org/about-us.html. Sipp draws inspiration from Gallery 72’s design and history. Though the gallery's glass walls...