An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...run away or to rebel, and they would bring additional value when they had babies—the so-called increase. Aunt Grace, for instance, gave birth to nine children, three of whom—Jacob, Jack,...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...an imported contagion, claiming, for instance, "that white Texas drovers imported racist violence into the state's cattle towns" (34). White Kansans often asserted that "racist violence would always be foreign—no...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...concerted effort against hookworm. In January 1904, Governor William Hunt asked the legislature of Puerto Rico to allocate $5,000 to "begin an effective campaign" against hookworm disease.36Hunt, Message, 20–21. Within...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...Photographic Postcards of Texas collection, digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/tex/id/629. Over the ensuing decades, Nixon played an important role in his adopted city as a physician and civil rights activist. Despite El Paso's relatively...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Stephanie Dowda on Topophilia
...encounter with The Lightning Field in New Mexico, an installation piece by renowned sculptor, Walter De Maria. Dowda describes the piece as a quarter-mile long desert field installed with nearly...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...not only to us as a people but literature in general, is that unless earnest and systematic effort be made to procure and preserve for transmission to our successors, the...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...and state officials. The Dixie Highway Association, founded in 1915 by Fisher and other businessmen, spearheaded their lobbying and planning efforts. Outline of the Dixie Highway, The Dixie Highway Association,...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...grew not only from the political demands of the day, such as the Roosevelt administration's need to justify New Deal programs, but also from observers' efforts to come to terms...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...class, and what is its role in the region's institutions and economy? Or its future? The Power of Energy Efficiency, Rory McIlmoil's five-part series on residential energy efficiency as regional...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...We Can Can" was the first track on the Our New Orleans 2005: A Benefit Album CD that raised over a million dollars for Habitat for Humanity’s efforts to create...