Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...will be quite severe because of what has occurred with mountaintop removal. Seat belt use remains low despite high numbers of traffic fatalities in coal mining states like West Virginia...
Residues of Border Control
...merely safe might prefer to ignore. –Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others, p. 7 Susan Harbage Page photographs objects found at the international border (objects trouvés), in the Rio...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...steamship and traveled up the Mississippi to what they hoped would be healthier country. About the Author Paul Michael Warden is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Santa...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...State Hospital, Petersburg, Virginia, 1915. Photographs by unknown creator. Originally published in the Forty-Fifth Annual Report of the Central State Hospital of Virginia (Petersburg) for the Fiscal Year Ending September...
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...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...Delery-Edwards describes the Lounge as a cultural space that sought to insulate patrons from homophobic violence, what Vernon would imagine in a musical number, "The World Outside These Walls."11Max Vernon,...
Editors
...and Gender Studies Department of Sociology Virginia Tech Blacksburg, Virginia Barbara Ellen Smith is professor emerita of women’s and gender studies in the Department of Sociology at Virginia Tech. She...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...possible to discourage the Lees from returning. By 1888, 170 families (nearly 800 individuals) were still living in the village. Freedman's Village, Arlington, Virginia, ca. 1865. Photograph by unknown creator....
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...you in Vietnam? GAUTREAUX: I was going to join the Air Force, but they had that draft lottery, and I drew number 361. Number one went, and the further away...
Religion and the US South
...South was the movement of increasing numbers of settlers into backcountry areas of Virginia and the Carolinas after 1750. Attracted by inexpensive land, Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Separate Baptists from the northern...