Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...economically and age-diverse, with ages ranging from teens to young families and older couples.19On demographics in the Winchester-Frederick County area in 2000, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_County,_Virginia#Demographics and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester,_Virginia#Demographics. For 2007 figures for...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...of colonial knowledge about hookworm to win over Puerto Rican physicians. Portrait of Col. William Crawford Gorgas, ca. 1916. Photograph by Farnham Bishop. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in...
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...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...one of Rome's founders. In January 1834, founder William Smith became Floyd County sheriff with responsibility for property advertisements, land sales, lot possession, and maintaining peace and order.28Sec. of State...
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
...leaves for Mississippi." Thursday. Then on Thursday I would fly back to Mississippi. On Friday I was here waiting for them with money, housing, everything.56Luis Cartagena, interview with Angela Stuesse,...
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
...describes the equipment needed to produce a live Bass experience. Sample from DJ Magic Mike, "The Man with the Bass, " Cheetah Records, 1994. Orlando-based producer DJ Magic Mike crafts...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...146. The manager of WVUE later told broadcasting historian Gerry Wilkerson, "No one can make a profit with a TV station unless affiliated with NBC, CBS or ABC." As Dick Clark and...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...store-community relationship was reciprocal and dialectical, with each entity both supporting and being supported by the other. "Little Five Points Was Just Crawling with Lesbians" Atlanta's 1970s lesbian-feminist community was...