LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...to institutions with long histories of community-building through arts activism and education. In this spirit, we hosted one of our first LiFT gatherings in the Hammonds House Museum. Founded in 1988, the Hammonds House...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...year, I hear the hum of the mill, and her humming the numb walk home after a shift change. When she wakes in mid-afternoon it is 1945 and her life...
The Bulletin—May 15, 2012
...how legislators and lobbyists have encouraged the growth of the state’s prison population through financial incentives over the last two decades, causing Louisiana to become the world leader in incarceration....
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...critical periods in Florida history. Willis ignores the impact of World War I and its many implications upon the home front. Historians addressing Prohibition reform at the national level link...
Sams Gap, North Carolina
...through Lexington and Louisville and that is a beautiful place, huge horse farms on either side of that I-75 and it's just beautiful. But now when I drive through there...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...in the American South (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004); Calvin Schermerhorn, Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom: Slavery in the Antebellum Upper South (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011)....
Remembering Documentary Filmmaker George Stoney
...public-access television, a teacher at New York University, and a native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was remembered in the New York Times, the Village Voice, and by Tom Rankin...
Early Roller Coaster Patents
...roller coaster" is remarkably similar to the titles of both patents." - Victor Canfield. 2001. "U.S. Rollercoaster History From Patents" from http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/v/a/vac3/history.html) A. Wood, Circular Gravity Railway (U.S. Patent...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009). Armed resistance to Hamilton's tax on distilled spirits, which did not distinguish between commercial and household production, arose from the high value of...