Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...2, 3. The palimpsest of near-faded and faint dashed lines amid bold city lines and plots excoriated in grid form show in this map alone, the nearly 140 years of...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...a country music radio variety show, aired between 1953 and 1978 on AM station WLAF in LaFollette, Tennessee. Across twenty-five years, the Blue Valley Boys and Girls, the show's featured...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...lines with the trees, sometimes downed trees dissect the frame horizontally. Other images don't have strong leading lines. The ones with algae or grasses are more abstract, ethereal. Sometimes there's...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...Up Stairs Lounge Arson, 2. His book was only the second book about the tragedy after Johnny Townsend's self-published and poorly documented interviews in Let the Faggots Burn (2011).9Townsend, Let...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
Introduction This multimedia essay complements the 2007 Appalshop film Morristown: in the air and sun. Written by independent filmmaker Anne Lewis, the director of Morristown, and Fran Ansley, a Tennessee...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...chapter on the state "North Carolina: The Progressive Myth," (New York: Basic Books, 1976), 218–247. Naked Partisanship All that has changed. With a Republican governor and Republican controlled legislature, legislation...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...in Canada. Related by Themselves, with an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1856), 53, consulted in Documenting the...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...about motivations or connections that are not made explicit in the records. The book is at its best when Segrest stays grounded in the patient case files she is privy...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...offers insights into racial, gendered, and class-based aspects of the federal government's campaign against syphilis and gonorrhea. The clinic treated all manner of patients—black as well as white, male as...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...anything but alternative. Home was a new version of the South created by desegregation, interstates, air conditioning, and airports. Our parents had mostly enjoyed the rewards, a hard-earned success that...