Searcy County Livestock Auction
...county's landscape and political economy. I have continued to return almost every year as I work on my dissertation about Mexican guest workers who plant trees for reforestation companies owned...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...and provide more reasons for young people to stay in, return to, or move to the region to make a life. How can Appalachian Studies take advantage of new technologies...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...Bibb recounted in his widely read 1849 memoir that he was forced to make three different escapes across the river when returning to Kentucky to bring his wife and children...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...by their belief in sin as a personal moral failure (not systemic), the primacy of individual conversion, final authority of the Bible, and the return of Christ. On defining evangelicals...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...getting bigger each year."6Alvin Benn, "Return to Selma," Montgomery Advertiser, March 10, 2008. The presidential campaign implications of the 2007 Bridge Crossing set the bar high with empathetic allusions and...
When the Border Crossed Me
...they earned pretty good money, too. They literally ran to the fields that day to get started filling the pints as I carried them empty flats and returned with filled...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...took precedence over residents' demands for the right to remain in, return to, as well as improve the living conditions in their housing complexes or neighborhoods.5Contemporary "Right to the City"...
From Raw Cotton to Cloth
...Erskine College and an AA degree in Commercial Photography from Randolph Community College. After four years working in Manhattan, Hall returned home to Chester, South Carolina, where she opened Pressly...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...commentators have read the 2008 returns as evidence of the waning southern hold on national politics. This was the determination of a New York Times article written by Adam Nossiter...
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
...the 1974 Wales Miners' Strike, part of a series of national mining strikes across the United Kingdom. When Gaventa returned to the United States, sociologist Helen Lewis invited him to show the...