Deep Ellum Blues
...Dallas, the "deep" or far side of Elm Street, between the Central Expressway and Fair Park. We passed through Deep Ellum several times without ever knowing its name; nor would...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...into occupational categories such as farm work, the laundry industry, hotel housekeeping, and personal service—long coded as labor for blacks or the bottom ranks of working class whites. Factory job...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...in front of me and the desire to follow intuitive visual impulses. This set up an internal dialog, a debate between conceptual and creative thinking. I walked the line between...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), 10. Along with the automobile, telephone, and electricity, radio emerged as a key technological component in the negotiations between rural people and government agencies over...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...J. W. Neal slave house was near the city's center market. Even free people of color did not feel safe on DC's streets. From 1852 until 1906, the celebrated free...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...York Times charts the harrowing impact of sea level rise on this area.5Dan Egan, "A Climate Crisis Haunts Chicago's Future. A Battle Between a Great City and a Great Lake,"...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
The Mere Region by Robert Jackson A critical review of some of T.S. Eliot's narrowly ideological invocations of region encourages us to clarify and redefine the term, for Eliot's own...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...2004 children's novel, and a work of historical fiction.4See Davis McCombs's Ultima Thule (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), Elizabeth Mitchell's Journey to the Bottomless Pit: The Story of Stephen Bishop and Mammoth...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...than two million textile and apparel workers in the United States in 1973. By 2009, there were 400,000, nearly all in the Carolinas. Between 1980 and 1985, ACTWU lost more...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...inhabitants were peasants living in the coffee region.12Irene Fernández Aponte, El cambio de soberanía en Puerto Rico: El otro '98 (Madrid: Editorial Mapfre, 1992). Top, Coffee-Drying Plot near Mayaguez, Puerto...