You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...and justice. Their stories are tools for the present, charting a path to a society that centers and values life-sustaining labor. About the Author Jessica Wilkerson is assistant professor of...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...and broke into the opera house, overpowering the marshal and his deputies. The men then took Potter to the center of the stage, tied him down, and turned on the...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...of Washington Press, 2012). Sergeants using a DDT sprayer, August 15, 1951. Photograph by Flickr user otisarchives4. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. The core of Spears's book centers on...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...War era nerve agents, drove some residents away. Calhoun and Bean, along with State Representative Barbara Boyd and Jacksonville State University (JSU) Environmental Policy Information Center Director (EPIC) Pete Conroy,...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...within the nation. North/South Lights in Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio, December 10, 2014. Photograph courtesy of Flickr user Travis Wise. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0....
Mississippi: State of Confession
...and Derek H. Alderman, Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of Memory (Chicago: Center for American Places at Columbia College, 2008); Renee Christine Romano and Leigh Raiford, The Civil Rights...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...operation's scope and sophistication, modern machinery, and mechanization of labor. American Lumberman reported: "Lockhart is as a sawmill town should be—in the woods—but it is [at] the very center of...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...project brought luminaries of the arts and sciences to the island as a retreat center for study and discussion; notable participants included composer Aaron Copeland, writers Ralph Ellison, Margaret Atwood,...
In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library
A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library Part 2: York reads from “At Liberty (1961),” “At Liberty (1964),” and “Substantiation” Part 3: York reads from “At Sun Ra’s Grave” and...
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
...and Education Center in Tennessee and Oxfam in Great Britain, for which he received a MacArthur Fellowship and an Order of the British Empire Award. After editing this documentary footage,...