Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...front page ran the headline "Homosexual Tells Police He Killed 3 Men Here." The first line of that story described the confessor, Joseph Standwick, as "an admitted homosexual."70"Homosexual Tells Police...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
..."listener" of complex national, regional, and local identifications has been a central, contested issue in radio scholarship. Susan Douglas describes the condition: [Radio's] technologically produced aurality allowed listeners to reformulate...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...the theological, legal and ideological legitimation of slavery throughout the antebellum period.6On the early history of slavery at Emory College see Mark Auslander, The Myth of Kitty: Paradoxes of Blood, Law...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Regional History (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001), 4. For all its sensitivity to spatial and temporal variation, the literature on white-on-black violence has emphasized the American South. Although whites brutalized African...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...the shear — a football field length long machine that traverses the coal face shearing off the coal. There's just one individual and all that coal is spilling onto an...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...farmers, businessmen, and the nascent automobile industry) accelerated nationwide after 1910 when affordable automobiles vastly expanded the potential for an upgraded road network to present a viable alternative for long-distance...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...year, changing approval rates, the annual total cost of claims, and, for some years, reports from the administering federal agency. See, for example, Social Security Administration, Annual Statistical Supplement to...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...heavily scripted pieces, this video also provides the most autobiographical representation of what Louisiana "means" to its videographers. It also makes use of interviews and common cultural objects or motifs...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...autobiographical. I mean, I stayed, I didn't quit, but yeah a lot of that is autobiographical. JAMES: Lace ends up dropping out of West Virginia University to return to the...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...previously "undeveloped" countryside. The latter turn out to be exceptional turncoats in an otherwise "loyal" and tight-knit rural community. Merthiolate-Colored Flags Sibley's locating Sweet Apple within the pastoral was as...