Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...the cave's passages and chambers, and produced detailed maps of the caverns still lauded for their accuracy. In the dozens of first-hand cave narratives that appeared in the 1840s and...
Religion and the US South
...celebrations were Confederate Memorial Day and dedications of monuments. Organizations like the United Confederate Veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy were the epitome of white cultural sanctity, and...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...and constructed over the airwaves an idealized aural representation of a southern Appalachian small town's culture. Rural Radio The introduction of radio into the rural United States in the 1920s...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...masculine—men who are not just "straight" acting and appearing, but who also might actually be more dangerous to approach, though that risk might itself be part of the thrill of...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...Celestine Sibley was one of the most read writers in the southeastern United States during the last half of the twentieth century. Her columns—some ten-thousand during her career—appeared almost daily...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...by hand, using the coding view in Dreamweaver. I tried to code it all in xhtml. As we brought on additional students to help—Sarah Toton, Steve Bransford, Paul O'Grady, Jere...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...Grant Application" (report, 1977), 32. By 1990, the rate of poverty had grown to 52 percent—in a city with one of the highest rates of economic growth in the United...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...organization would receive the raw footage after the PBS broadcast. Many months later, staff members approached Anne at nearby Appalshop in Kentucky to ask if she could take the raw...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...than two million textile and apparel workers in the United States in 1973. By 2009, there were 400,000, nearly all in the Carolinas. Between 1980 and 1985, ACTWU lost more...
"Aint that Something?"
...Dickey's Deliverance didn't help things— portraying Appalachian people as menacing, stupid, and inbred. The damaging stereotypes of Appalachia persist, as Emily Satterwhite explains in Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular...