You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...loss of mining jobs and the transition to a global market and service economy paralleled the unraveling of the social safety net. In the 1990s, the bipartisan dismantling of Aid...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...of the "moral community" of border people. Some worked intentionally to evade criminal sanction, not revenue collection. Cattle rustlers in the late nineteenth century, along with bootleggers and drug runners...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...threat of espionage grew, Oak Ridgers monitored neighbors for signs of disloyalty or weakness. Even Santa Claus was not above suspicion. Learning to live in Oak Ridge meant adopting a "culture...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...relations (despite the fact that "Mexican and Mexican Americans were in the majority" (4) in El Paso). The author does not mention the Santa Ysabel massacre of 1915, the El...
Zircon
...measured rate. The zircon lasts when mother rocks around have crumbled, worn away to sand. It keeps the fingerprints of isotopes from clouds of the original primordial dust, right here...
The Bulletin—November 1, 2012
...changes to the early voting schedule have altered the ways in which African American churches organize their early voting campaigns. According to Susan Saulny of The New York Times, these campaigns...
The Bulletin—May 15, 2012
...of the case and how local groups and United States Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-Illinois) have rallied around Gabino Sanchez, a 27-year-old construction and landscape worker from rural Ridgeland, South Carolina....
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
Review In the early hours of June 29, 2014, a Bourbon Street shootout left twenty-one-year-old Brittany Thomas, a visitor to New Orleans, dead and nine other bystanders injured.1Ken Daley, "Bourbon...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
Review Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism opens with an arresting photographic image: nineteenth-century local colorist Mary Noailles Murfree, author of In the Tennessee Mountains, a collection of purportedly "authentic" sketches, sits...
Excerpt from Saints at the River
...time. She kicks off her sandals and enters, the water so much colder than she imagined, and quickly deeper, up to her kneecaps, surging under the smooth surface. She shivers....