Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...of bureaucracy did not nest cleanly. While federal initiative may have prompted action, in Virginia, as in a number of other southern states, the cohabitation registrations came about through state...
The Shenandoah Valley
...Shenandoah continues its flow northward until it joins the Potomac at Harpers Ferry. Top: Aerial photograph of Shenandoah River, December 17, 2010. Photograph by La Citta Vita. Courtesy of Wikimedia...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...Introduced in the House in February 2016. I call it . . . THE COMMONS COMMUNITIES ACT Whereas coal mining is diminishing in the southern mountains, leaving thousands unemployed, and...
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
...struggle with the J. P. Stevens corporation. While the episode called attention to Sutton, it also showed many other mill women front and center. A bold, multi-faceted effort, the campaign...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...breath" (34). Many Mammoth Cave writers described "trying the dark," a trial that involved the cave guide leaving a visitor deprived of any lamplight for a few minutes of tortuous...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...counties combined (250,885). The numbers of African American residents in "diversifying" Fayette, northern Fulton, and Gwinnett counties each approximately doubled over the course of the decade; the numbers in Henry...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...for Cherokee County ("Where Metro Meets the Mountains") approximately forty miles north of downtown Atlanta, is not Francisco's final destination.2Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce, "Discover Cherokee!" https://cherokeechamber.com. "My uncle works carpentry,...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...doubled, at once opening and closing, losing and then finding itself in its own cheap performance" (180). These kinds of juxtapositions are the crux of what Comentale identifies as "vernacular...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...Chicago Press, 2002); Tricia Henry, "Punk and Avant-Garde Art," Journal of Popular Culture 17, no. 4 (Spring 1984): 30. Another, early node of DIY culture in an unlikely place was...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...venue to the "Race Course," and reduced the number of persons for sale: Joseph Bryan’s Advertisements for the “Sale of Slaves”, The Savannah Daily Morning News, February 27, 1859. Mortimer...