The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...popular participation often pushed municipal and colonial officials to establish treatment stations, rather than simply to respond to the US disciplinary strategies. Peasants, for example, appropriated specific elements of colonial...
Palomares Bajo
...president of the Spanish Nuclear Energy Board, who "took matters into his own hands" at the end of February 1966. Apparently acting unilaterally, without the approval of superiors, he gave...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...ferries, etc. delineated correctly and faithfully." The maps were atlases of opportunity for speculators and entrepreneurs. Enterprising Georgians promoted themselves as land appraisers, guides, innkeepers, attorneys, and merchandizers in the...
Our Backward Revolution
...and courtesy of Tom Rankin. Few examples more clearly illustrate the irrational, but powerful appeal of such success at promoting irrationality than the demonization of transgender people in this country—as...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...Virginia. He documents transformations in the mining industry, including health and safety initiatives and technological changes. Selected images from this essay have appeared in two exhibitions at Wheeling Jesuit University:...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...near the campus, but the board denied the request, saying that no cross-racial transfers would be approved until the Supreme Court issued more instructions. Near the end of May, 1955,...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...appreciate that Willis's "Betty and Dupree" was a perfect song for dancing the Stroll, even if they did so awkwardly. The teens on Seventeen were emulating their peers in Philadelphia...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...organization would receive the raw footage after the PBS broadcast. Many months later, staff members approached Anne at nearby Appalshop in Kentucky to ask if she could take the raw...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...124. For more on Gaither Homecomings and their role and appeal in southern gospel and beyond, see ibid., 110–136. The Martins first appeared in 1993 on an early Gaither Homecoming...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...On March 26, 1974, approximately eight-thousand spectators filled the University of Southwestern Louisiana's basketball arena, the Blackham Coliseum, to hear some of the most popular artists of the region's dancehall...