North Carolina: A State of Shock
...their policy positions, but it breaks little ground. In his excellent study, The Idea Brokers: Think Tanks and the Rise of the New Policy Elite (New York: The Free Press,...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...immigration, and resource policy.5Robert Gottlieb, Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement, rev. ed. (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2005), 24; Jennifer Clapp and Peter Dauvergne, Paths to...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...Foreign Policy and Local People How can US foreign policy positively affect Mexico and Guatemala? We cannot invest billions of dollars in building a better wall or a high tech...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...as John and Major Ridge openly abandoned the established policy of refusing removal agreements. Forming alliances with Georgia Governor Lumpkin and federal officials, the Ridges began to seek a treaty.13See,...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...(New York: Oxford University Press, 1963), 208. Moreover, Black plantation hands and laborers were hauled by wagon loads and forced to vote the Democratic ticket, some doing so multiple times....
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...and white, to communities across the South. In Roanoke, Virginia WDBJ ran a weekly program in 1955 titled "Virginia's Dilemma" as the state's policy of "massive resistance" was taking shape....
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...Tax Increases" (report for the Texas Public Policy Foundation, August 12, 2014), http://www.texaspolicy.com/center/local-governance/blog/austin-homeowners-see-continued-property-tax-increases. Austin is also one of the fastest growing US cities, with 3 percent population growth and a...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...in 1886. In 1884, he was the unsuccessful nominee for vice president on the Republican ticket headed by James G. Blaine. He also co-founded the largest Union veterans group, the...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...Delta. The Gaither interview invites viewers to imagine them as representing a set of hill-country values—a love of hunting, closeness to nature, self-sufficiency, and cultural isolation—that Blevins argues have over...
Religion and the US South
...as a distinctive part of the United States. It contributes to defining debates on public policy issues and provides on-going organizational bases for political campaigns across the ideological spectrum. It...