Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...Gay and Lesbian Review editor Richard Schneider commented on this range of use-value that we are still debating: Cruising today is more likely to be carried out on smartphone apps...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...athletic fields at LSU for days and days, the piles of used clothing to be sorted, the flats of bottled water; the badly sunburned baby. Those images changed again when...
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...labor. Sentenced for a year and a half, my father was required to harvest rice for ten hours a day in Việt Nam's hot and humid climate. Among other tasks,...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...changes. Drawn by abundant natural resources and state governments promising low-wage and non-unionized labor and cheap (or free) land, military installations sprang up and expanded, and a host of industrial...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...Continent Press, 1847. The thirteen major African-American extended families in present day Oxford are able to trace their descendants back to the early enslaved families of Oxford, who labored on...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...to the Wal-Mart a Holiday Inn Express. We've all probably stayed in that kind of hotel, but back in the days when I was a shooter for the United Mine Workers...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...within the last few months."19"Mary Warner Epidemic," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), May 8, 1923. Two days later, at the request of District Attorney Marr and a number of medical professionals, City...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...form, regular local singings are scheduled, usually on the same day each year (for example, the third Sunday and prior Saturday in March), and often at the same location. Empty...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...and Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia. The Roanoke paper did not print on Sunday and the meeting was held on a Saturday. WSLS gave considerable voice, time,...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...House that we admire today exists because of laborers who had little choice other than to build it. None of this was extraordinary. The Civil War changed the equation and...