Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...experiences. The book concludes with an overview of the American Revolution's dissolution of the trade that led to revised concepts of American geography. With little or no deerskin trade, new...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880–1930 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000). A log train with cut, stacked timber, near Lockhart, Alabama. American Lumberman 1907,...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...number of African Americans migrating to the South exceeded the number of those leaving the region. Especially for returning and primary migrants frustrated by the declining economic opportunities available in...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
Review The thirst for information and the power of lies is "a very old problem," writes Alejandra Dubcovsky, yet Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South is more than...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...century before de Soto's arrival, large urban centers peppered the American Southeast alongside smaller villages throughout what is now the region on either side of the border between North and...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...group of women employed in maquiladoras) ; the Border Project of the American Friends Service Committee, a group that partnered with the CFO; and the Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras,...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...burials. In the 1960s, developers sought to buy the land and disinter the remains in both burial grounds. African American activists, including the Afro-American Bicentennial Corporation (ABC), energetically resisted these plans,...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...before."20Jenny Jones, author, Pete Marovich, photographer. "Hull's Drive-In: Preserving a Piece of Americana." American Journal, Issue 9. http://hullsdrivein.com/docs/press/PDF/AmericanJournal.pdf A commercial buyer never came. Instead in June 1999, Eric and Elise...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
...His poems have appeared in various print and online journals, including Mid-American Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Greensboro Review, Backwards City Review, and Southeast Review. Interview with...