Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...from Chattanooga by Scottsboro, Alabama, through the Tennessee Valley to Memphis; from Memphis through the Marked Tree area where the tenant farmers union was active and on to Little Rock...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...this map, click here. At the most distant zoom level, only Stevens mills with significant union action are labeled. The larger the marker the greater the number of employees and...
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...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...Tennessee Valley Authority, responsible for this spill, used MTR coal from a number of different sites. The environmental and cultural costs are astronomical for a process where a "typical operation"...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...MARBL.) At the end of Raymond's life, he and Benny had acrimonious phone conversations and exchanged angry letters. The letters referenced the phone conversations and expanded on them. By 1990,...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...the number he needs to pass his bill, while sending a political message that will keep his supporters in line.3Sam Stockard and Adam Friedman, “Tennessee’s statewide school voucher bill dead,...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...them from sleep. Before the dust had time to settle, reports began to come in of a second bombing, this time at the Jewish Community Center in Nashville. The explosion,...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...Southern general sent the child home to be adopted into his plantation household in Nashville, Tennessee.2Andrew Jackson to Rachel Jackson, November 4 and December 19 and 29, 1813, in The...
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency boat ride on the Mississippi River, Memphis, Tennessee, 2008
Amie Vanderford, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency boat ride on the Mississippi River, Memphis, Tennessee, 2008....
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...named Rose, valued at $700. The full listing reads: Slave Cicero 1,000, slave Sophia 300, slave Jane 400 Slave Jack 800, slave Rose 700, slave David 800, old woman 100...