John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...in Kentucky, 1959 In addition to the connections provided by Ritchie, Cohen contacted the United Mine Workers and the Library of Congress before heading to Kentucky by bus. He had...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...at 94 in 1982. During the 1980s, Houston endured the double impact of HIV/AIDS and the long economic fallout of the 1981 oil bust. The number of queer businesses began...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...particular place can only produce a limited number of marketable artists) and, to a lesser degree, speculative exploration (that going to obscure places might yield a novel interpretation of the...
Editorial Style Guide
...are usually used. number of international unions 8; total number of women: 79 When to spell out numbers Spell out numbers from one through one hundred and approximate numbers. It...
Religion and the US South
...moving away from traditional Baptist support for separation of church and state to support, among other government-enforced social causes, prayer in schools. Many moderates have left the SBC, weakening its...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...fascinated by the regional landscape that is missing from Louisiana Story, the coastal prairie land that Morgan paints. We had originally been in contact with Morgan because of his connection...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...unique political, economic, and psychological importance to the Confederacy. It was a principal railroad hub, a vital source of material support for the war effort, and a bastion of hope...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...the number he needs to pass his bill, while sending a political message that will keep his supporters in line.3Sam Stockard and Adam Friedman, “Tennessee’s statewide school voucher bill dead,...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...context, the growth of advanced producer services benefited only certain segments of the labor force, while increasing numbers joined the contingent workforce. Handsomely compensated financiers, technocrats, entrepreneurs, and other mid-to-upper-level...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...of the Great Depression—just as the PHS dismantled a number of pilot projects designed to provide mass treatment to syphilitic blacks. Although many of the initiatives undertaken in Hot Springs...