"Aint that Something?"
...Dickey's Deliverance didn't help things— portraying Appalachian people as menacing, stupid, and inbred. The damaging stereotypes of Appalachia persist, as Emily Satterwhite explains in Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...that white workers increasingly found new opportunities elsewhere, chicken plants faced an ever mounting need for cheap labor. Mississipi's method, pamphlet, n.d. Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives and...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...live in Stantontown at 706 Stanton Avenue. She appears sporadically in the Washington city directory, residing on Stanton Road, as late as 1909. She does not appear in the 1910...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...Bailey K. Ashford immortalized his first hookworm patients in a photograph. The caption reads: "Photograph of a number of natives of Puerto Rico, showing pernicious anemia due to Ankylostoma duodenale."...
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:...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...Deficiency Appropriation Bill, 1921; Hearings before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations, 66th Congress, 3rd Session (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1921), 588. Opening a clinic in Hot Springs devoted...
Encountering COVID
...was no help. And the state system was not equipped to handle the massive number of unemployment insurance claims. Before COVID, we usually had about 800 or so claims a...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...Relative Poverty Rates in Appalachia, 2012–2016 (County Rates as a Percentage of the US Average), July 2018. Map by the Appalachian Regional Commission. Courtesy of the Appalachian Regional Commission. The...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...of the Ohio, together numbered approximately one hundred thousand troops as they approached the city, but only about twenty-seven thousand of them fought in the Battle of Atlanta.11Woodworth, Nothing But...
Editorial Style Guide
...are usually used. number of international unions 8; total number of women: 79 When to spell out numbers Spell out numbers from one through one hundred and approximate numbers. It...