Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, DC
...how Scott and Huntington cultivated political “friendships” to gain corporate influence in federal government Part 4: White addresses questions about the on-going significance of transcontinental railroads and competition About Richard White:...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...recounts the story of how he came to Mississippi: Mississippi . . . I think God put it in my path. I was in Florida picking oranges. One afternoon I...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Memphis is positioned at a strategic interstate crossroads in the middle of the United States, midway between Monterrey, Mexico, and Toronto, Canada. A new interstate highway, I-69, the NAFTA superhighway...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...come to the United States. Increasing numbers found their way, as Rudy did, to the Southeast. Migrants did not disperse evenly, but settled in clusters and hot spots. The new...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...places. Understanding the ways that place-based identities change within rap is of central importance.[/fn] Photograph of Atlanta’s Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz at a local landmark (Ichiban Records,...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...because it was unusual to me. I'd never seen any place like it in Florida. In 2004 I started a new photographic project called Primitive Florida. I felt that I...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...towns, including population decline and reduced economic opportunities. City seal, Eatonville, Florida, 1999. Photograph by Tina Bucuvalas. Courtesy of the State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Eatonville, Florida, also founded...
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...
Encountering COVID
...you think that way? How can you think that way? It's Fox News. People have had it in their homes for so long. Fox was pitting us against each other,...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...of an argument. When talking about region, we all think we know what we're talking about, and we tend to use the word in scores of different ways, and that...