John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...recorded. No one was interested in him, and he wasn't interested in coming out. No one was interested in coming to listen. He didn't want to go make records or...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...sites of immigrant settlement in suburban Atlanta Part 5: Increased surveillance andcontrol of immigrant workers in Georgia Part 6: The construction of Latino spaces and communities, specifically Latin American Catholicism in the...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia, offered justifications for its programming in the public interest. The station noted the track record of its radio operation as an "important medium of cultural expression...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...Owen Whitfield demanded that if the federal government offered relief in response to a disaster it created with dynamite, it should address the disaster caused by its legislation.10Wright, Old South,...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...to be obliterated in the post–World War II era by urban growth.27Ibid., 52. Fort Walker remains a notable Atlanta Civil War site, protected by its location in a municipal park...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...sugarcane land, once a volatile but powerful economic life-force, is idle and in poor condition. Even with its admirable innovations in sustainable and organic farming, Cuba's domestic agricultural producers cannot...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...Write about us as if we were interconnected, as if what happens in the coalfields impacts you, and as if we mattered. Because it does, and we do. The essay...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...broadly conceived program. I talked with interdisciplinary faculty and, whenever possible, hired bright project personnel who were themselves scholars. I was interested in how media innovations affect the way we...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...amidst "imperial decline and the sound of cowboy bluster," it was essential. "If there is any conceivable 'rock 'n' roll future,'" he argued, it lay "in the intrinsic values of...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...convinced that I understood the documentary process well enough. Although I had conducted many interviews at GPB, I was nervous that I wasn't properly prepared. But what I was most...