All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...Photograph by Flickr user J. Stephen Conn. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-2.0. Three weeks after Floyd County troops began arresting Cherokees, General Floyd informed Scott "there are now but few...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...as any. The fluidity of American culture — and I think ultimately region in the United States must be defined not politically or legally but in the most inclusive cultural...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...Cornwall, Connecticut, over the course of the 1810s and 1820s, as well as fluctuating numbers of Native youth at a residential school called Choctaw Academy in Blue Springs, Kentucky, opened...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...equation. After winning the first modern war against China in 1895, Japan shocked the international powers with its victory over a Western nation, Russia, in 1905. Meanwhile, the increasing flow...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
Introduction Scott County chicken farm, Mississippi, 2005. Photograph by Angela Stuesse. Courtesy of Angela Stuesse. It's dusk, and the putrid odor of chickens heading to and from slaughter floats through...
Encountering COVID
...was no help. And the state system was not equipped to handle the massive number of unemployment insurance claims. Before COVID, we usually had about 800 or so claims a...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...Other scholars caution against a naturalized or taken-for-granted understanding of "'organic' relationships between music and the cultural history of [a] locale" and argue that participants appropriate "music via global flows...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...of photographs he shot during his travels across the country. The floor was strewn with prints. Frank's photographs captivated Cohen and showed him another way of seeing his surroundings. While...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...decline had been caused by a combination of factors, including "the city's growth and suburban flight" as well as the "razing" of a number of houses "to prepare for expressways...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...the Mattachine Society of Florida, wrote of "The Agony of the Mask" in a 1966 story published in short-lived D.C. homophile periodical The Homosexual Citizen: "Secrecy destroys self-identity . ....