Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...Mexico (Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2006); Peter van Wyck, The Highway of the Atom (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2010). Beginning with Elaine Tyler May's Homeward Bound and Paul Boyer's...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...come to the rescue of white congregations in ways that can excuse and blur the history. Such chroniclers have argued that southern white congregations were largely moderate and either removed...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...Alabama has provided the setting for a number of influential studies on race, labor, and radicalism in the Jim Crow South. Yet in shifting attention from Scottsboro's sleepy courthouse square...
The Bulletin—March 20, 2013
...which did not clarify whether "one person one vote" requires districts to be measured by number of people or by number of eligible voters. A recent New York Times article...
The Change
...when the fields were like waves on a green ocean, and turned away, away from the change and corruption of big business on small farms of traditional agricultural people,...
Darkly
...bones sing in your fingers, cold as galvanized wire. The rest of the way comes from somewhere else. There are many ways to get there and then the one I...
Local Color
...usually been explained as a passing fancy of national taste, whereby audiences particularly in northern urban locations indulged their curiosity about the out-of-the-way, quaint, disappearing, ways of life associated with...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...the opera house, these men were in some sense recognizing the ways in which entertainment was bound up with violence, as well as the ways in which violence itself was...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...in the song, Cash sings, "The needle tears a hole / The old familiar sting / Try to kill it all away / But I remember everything." Upon the last...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
O'er this wide extended country, Hear the solemn echoes roll, For a long and weary century, Those cries have gone from pole to pole; See the white man sway his...