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...
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,...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...written, this right need not be understood solely in the judicial-legal sense but as performative. See Sancto, "Visibility in Crisis: Configuring Transparency and Opacity in We Are Here's Political Activism," InVisible...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...sense in which we use the term community: Susan Krieger notes that "some lesbian communities are geographically specific . . . ; some exist within institutions (e.g., prisons); some exist only...
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...
Editors
...Blacksburg, Virginia Barbara Ellen Smith is professor emerita of women’s and gender studies in the Department of Sociology at Virginia Tech. She has been active in and writing about movements...
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....