Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...E. Coleman started Kindred Spirits in Houston as an answer to many lesbians' problems with the bar options then available. She also hired a security firm to guard the parking...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...the growth of industry using taxpayer dollars. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, elected officials relied on BAWI to lure new industries to Scott County, including furniture plants, garment and textile...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...removal site. As the home of the Cherokee Nation's most prominent leaders and the location of two military removal stations, Rome, Georgia has much to teach. Measuring Chains and Axes...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...my already firm sense of the importance of the spiritual lives of black folk. Seeds sown in my childhood home of Jacksonville blossomed under the guidance of these teachers and...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...of the federal district courts. The NAACP attorneys promptly petitioned Nashville's school officials to begin the desegregation process, but again, the Board of Education took no formal action. On the...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
Introduction: Unusual Sympathies In 1811 a prominent Choctaw woman named Molly McDonald placed her eleven-year-old son in the home of Silas Dinsmoor, an unpopular US government official who had just established...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...beginning with a state that they might only marginally connect with Appalachia (Mississippi). While the site has many points of entry, it offers no final resting point, only a growing...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...that in the early twenty-first century we are calling the Global South. Industrial Waves, 1780–2008 Figure 1. Ratio of Employment in Manufacturing to Agriculture 1800–2000. Copyright: Peter Evans and Sarah...
Palomares Bajo
...costly as a precedent for "future incidents." Plutonium was spread far beyond the 100-yard debris scattering at bomb site #2 and the 500-yard dispersal range at bomb site #3, even...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...to lie down quietly in the bosom of home, and render up his spirit to Him who gave it— another victim to the dark and bloody spirit of Slavery, whose...