Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...the long decline of slavery in this small region and the ways that enslaved and free labor intertwined. Grivno's account of the antebellum era at its northern reaches is a...
The Place of Appalachia
...Appalachian Case (Boone, N.C.: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1978); Dwight B. Billings, "Introduction: Writing Appalachia: Old Ways, New Ways, and WVU Ways," in Culture, Class and Politics in Modern Appalachia: Essays...
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
...Musical Journey (New York: Amistad, 2003), 161. Wenders wanted the old footage to be "the backbone of the second half of [the] film," revealing more than any contemporary interview.2Ibid. Steve...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...lone survivor identified Peterson, a black ex-miner crippled by tuberculosis, as the assailant, but many in Birmingham—black and white—doubted that Peterson could have committed the crime. Just months after launching...
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...
Baton Rouge, Louisiana images
...2004, there were a number of construction projects underway in downtown Baton Rouge. Tourist on Docked Riverboat Modern-day riverboats, decorated like their nineteenth-century predecessors, transport tourists up and down...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Black and Poor Americans records, SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University. SCLC argued that traditional principles and tactics of nonviolent direct action could be successfully brought to bear under any number...
Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects
...producers, and geographers to submit materials for a 2017–2018 “Digital Spaces” series. We seek multi-media articles and projects that engage with and mobilize digital scholarship. “Digital Spaces” is especially interested...