DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...Press, 2001), 140. In 1942, the federal government had established the Malaria Control in War Areas (MCWA) agency, headquartered in Georgia and tasked with creating malaria-free zones around military sites....
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...definitive account of these protests.1Raymond Arsenault, Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, Pivotal Moments in American History. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Ninety miles southwest of...
The Shenandoah Valley
...promote railroad and coal mining throughout southwestern Virginia, Appalachia, and the Valley in the 1870s and 1880s. The beauty of the region attracted investors to build hotels and resorts,...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...drive-in ramps. Even though there were a number of other active theaters in southwestern Virginia — including the Moonlite, the Park Place, and the Hiland — and northeastern Tennessee, time...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...refutes this claim. National Park Service, "Stephen Site Bulletin," www.nps.gov/maca/stephen.pdf. Here is Willis's oft-cited account of his first view of Stephen Bishop: The ladies of this party were talking with...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...Association. In addition to hymn singing during the service, members gathered to sing hymns before the start of the service, a practice which continues today. Fellowship at a nearby home...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...where he was getting medication for hypertension, heart problems, and early-onset diabetes. Top, Unemployed coal miner uses the services of Free Health Clinic, Clay, WV, 2005. Bottom, Miner holds medications and...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...selfish nation in decline" (148), Freeman notes that for visitors, Oak Ridge and its nuclear weapons are examples of both the decline and possibility of national progress. Freeman not only gets...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...your left. You read the names on the panel (stitched in the sand and sky), mouthing them in silence. You follow the flamingo. The Florida turnpike—the long interstate toll-road that...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...and the War of 1812 as payment for their military service. Ozark homesteaders of the nineteenth century were predominantly Scots-Irish, accustomed to living on the frontier, in close contact with Native...