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
...Times Magazine article freed her from the small town rumor mill because "nobody will ever have anything to hold over me no more."7Sutton, quoted in Victoria Byerly, Hard Times Cotton...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...He pointed them toward me because my dissertation was on the Texas borderlands. I approached them with an idea for a project that became the Texas Slavery Project because I...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...out and give you a free estimate on any house you want wired, any repairin' or remodelin' or anything like that, without any obligation. They'll be happy to give you...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...demographic and statistical information on Atlanta's day laborers is difficult to procure not only because many day laborers are undocumented and therefore go unreported, but also because it was not...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...research, writing, and creativity established by Appalachian Studies. Those in the field need not worry that their hard-won insights will be lost or not attended to, because the next generation...
Deep Ellum Blues
...soon after the war, and settled in a variety of 'Freedmantowns' around the city. One of these Freedmantowns remained in the far north of the city in my own childhood...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...of racial mixture between the Japanese and other Asian ethnic groups worried Koya and eugenicists in the Ministry of Health and Welfare during the war. Because of their warnings about...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...number of persons he used to abuse, but there were a great many."6Ira Berlin et al., eds., Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867, ser. 1, vol. 2, The Wartime...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...culpability of medical science in conversion therapies. Apomorphine, primarily used to treat Parkinson’s disease but has also been promoted as a treatment for alcoholism and heroin addiction, and the hormone...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...in Chapter VI, their relationship may seem to others more like a "usership" than a "friendship" because of the men's codependencies.24Reed, "Chapter V," 49:09. McLemore gives Goodson money and other...