Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...family owned farms by large-scale agribusiness effectively ended sharecropping and farm tenancy. No longer needed in the cotton fields and no longer wanting to work in them, generations of black...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America (Yale University Press, 2011) and Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the New South (LSU Press, 1999)....
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...in 1912, marries another Greek immigrant, has a family, and and by the 1920s owns a business. Members of the Karkambasis (James) family come and go, live and die, between...
Old billboard, Jacksonville, Florida, 2005
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...credibility of their new state with the rest of the nation and with business investors. Both essays underscore how drastically conditions in these two states differed from those in the...
When the Border Crossed Me
...me, let alone foreign workers. Yet, on that hot afternoon thirty years ago, I joined the thousands of farmers and other business owners who have hired people who have traveled...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...businesses. The town experienced the development of new public works and utilities, restaurants and hotels, schools and churches. Replete with ambiguity and tension, Salisbury's urbanization did not preclude racial oppression....
Spencer's Inc., Mount Airy, North Carolina, 2010
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
..."a businessman who'd wanted there to be a downtown attraction that honored local peanut growers" (52). The iconic goober's origins are well known and clearly explained, and its removal is...
Flea market, near Social Circle, Georgia, 2007