The Shenandoah Valley
...a change in scope and scale. Larger and larger institutions opened business in the Valley throughout the twentieth century. DuPont, Coors, Tyson, Wampler, and Merck each have massive plants there,...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...of this, and also because of the clinic's generally poor record-keeping practices, the number of "adverse reactions" may be higher than what Wenger reported. For more on the latter problem,...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...know what WVU is like now, but at that time we had a large number of out of state students, partly because our tuition was so cheap, and the whole...
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,...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...up, preservation, metadata. Paul O'Grady will remember the weeks we spent working with Emory metadata librarian Laura Akerman. Everything was a blank slate. Everything required decisions. At launch, we used...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...benefits; a smaller number preferred the flexible employment arrangements associated with day labor. It was common for Latino day laborers to characterize their employment goals as such: "It's better to...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...in the Midwest, Mountain, and Southern States," The Williams Institute, December 2014, https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/lgbtdivide. Yet, arguably the most recognized queer person from the South in our time—that is to say, the...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...religion.7Brown, 26–27, 30. In the West-Central African worldsense, the land of the living and the land of the dead exist as separate places in the unified space of the natural...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...from Flaherty's juxtapositions of natural landscape with man-made technology. "Evangeline" "Evangeline," Layla Soileau and Marty Garner, 2006 A bilingual film about language and storytelling. Interview with Layla Soileau and Marty...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...changes. Drawn by abundant natural resources and state governments promising low-wage and non-unionized labor and cheap (or free) land, military installations sprang up and expanded, and a host of industrial...