Mapping Souths
...his map of the South, too, terminates in a project of warfare, this one to suppress the South's revolutionary intentions. Today, the positions staked out by Trescot and Marx seem...
Julius Hartman
...waters of this living fountain possess the virtues of purity and healthfulness "Primeval forests clothes the hills that surround it, and the skilled labor of human hands has added to...
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...as the history of slave labor in the construction of American universities and the Smithsonian; a review of artist Kara Walker's "Blood Sugar" installation; and a video presentation about how...
The Bulletin—April 24, 2013
...While Texas lawmakers suggest that increased regulation would not have prevented the blast, many labor and workplace safety groups are calling for increased regulations and more funding for OSHA enforcement....
Grapefruit Workers in Florida, January 1937
...Arthur Rothstein, Packing fruit in association packinghouse at Fort Pierce, Florida. Some migratory labor is employed here, January 1937. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Black & White Negatives...
St. Thomas Church Supper near Bardstown, Kentucky, August 7, 1940
...workers are called "parishoners" and the black workers are unidentified, it appears that the second image likely fits into expected paradigms of race and labor. The photograph of lamb and...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...lynching in Decatur, Illinois. Dennis Downey examines local responses to a 1903 lynching in Wilmington, Delaware, of a black laborer, George White, accused of assaulting a young white woman. Specifically,...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...to, or had friends who could, post their bonds of $500 or $1,000 — but neither were they well established or well respected. They were skilled laborers, like Mitchell, or...
Mill children, Macon, Georgia, 1909
Blue Ridge paper mill, Pigeon Forge River, Canton, North Carolina, 2008