Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...Carolina General Assembly and approved by both school boards made the merger possible. The contentious debates that initially surrounded unification—centering on how to redistribute resources and students in the new...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...North Carolina Growers Association had to buy into this or else we would have had a hard time making the documentary. They did buy into it because we met with...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...backdrop of the Eastern Shore of Virginia is predominantly one of change, both on long- and short-term scales. The current mainland-marsh-lagoon-barrier island complex has its origins in the sea level...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...to test cheap and easy methods of contraception, such as spermicidal jelly and foam powder, among women in remote areas in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee in the 1930s. In...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...http://www.wral.com/tillis-actual-voter-fraud-not-the-primary-reason-for-voter-id-push-/12231514. North Carolina's new voter laws have their greatest impact on African American voters who are far less likely to have official state approved identification and this racially disparate effect...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...station in Milwaukee as FCC regulations required multiple broadcast owners to divest from one license in order to buy another. Unable to find a buyer for WVUE, Storer turned the station...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...Christians who are "culturally southern, socially conservative, and Anglo-American."8Stephen Shearon, Harry Eskew, James C. Downey, and Robert Darden, "Gospel Music," Grove Music Online, July 10, 2012, accessed October 15, 2013, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/A2224388....
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...has reached thousands of consumers because of the cooperative's marketing, which includes an attractive farm stand with a cane press where people can buy fresh sugarcane juice as they buy...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...sprung up alongside the highways, where you could get gas, buy a hot dog and candy plus stock up on concrete lawn statues and souvenir mugs and gaudy T-shirts."1http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/14/sports/sports-of-the-times-atlanta-sends-up-the-balloons.html In...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...This allows coal companies quicker and cheaper access to millions of tons of coal while effectively eliminating the most expensive cost of doing business—labor. The average MTR mine employs eighty-nine...