Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...schools. The other four states of the former Confederacy came close to adopting such programs, but abandoned consideration once the federal courts invalidated voucher programs. Adopted as an effort to...
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...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...One of this "great majority" was Virgil Oren Adams. A native of Clovis, New Mexico, during the early 1930s Adams made several visits to the Hot Springs VD clinic. Each...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...refused to air any national programming that dealt with racial matters. National and local news programs often strove, nevertheless, for fairness but southern politicians worried about the visual power of...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...homes, and mills, loosely connected by narrow wagon roads, trails, or streams. The invading and defending armies were vulnerable to this lay of the land, mainly wilderness and not well...
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...
Sams Gap, North Carolina
...Sams Gap, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Mrs. English at her home near Sams Gap, Sams Gap, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Concrete pour on the...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...'Can I come back and hear you some more?'"4Tom Davenport and Barry Dornfeld, Remembering the High Lonesome (2003), film from Folkstreams, http://www.folkstreams.net/film,42; "Transcript to Remembering the High Lonesome," Folkstreams, http://www.folkstreams.net/context,92, 2-3. Roscoe Halcomb allowed Cohen...
Religion and the US South
...South was the movement of increasing numbers of settlers into backcountry areas of Virginia and the Carolinas after 1750. Attracted by inexpensive land, Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Separate Baptists from the northern...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
.... . . it is the seams that seemingly call my attention to the constructedness of the venture."81Alexander, "Querying Queer Theory Again," 351. He suggests that visible drag "seams" offer...