Deep Ellum Blues
...ownership of all its public land, making the State of Texas the nation's largest land promoter, aside from Uncle Sam himself. And in Texas, no city was so conceived and...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...road signs now posted on the state routes entering Hoboken and in a new social studies unit for Brantley County eighth graders.73Both signs and curriculum are initiatives of retired Waycross,...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...Rape, won numerous awards. This area of inquiry is highly significant to our discussion today since the McGirt case not only has to do with tribal jurisdiction, but also with...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...the first half of the 1990s, others that thirty thousand workers' protests of "significant size" occurred in 2000 alone, averaging more than eighty per day. As China has become known...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...a growing interest not just in maintaining existing theaters, but in constructing new ones.7"Drive-in Theater Search," Drive-ins.com, http://drive-ins.com/srchdest.htm?name=&city=&code=al&status_op=open&search.x=13&search.y=12. Six of Alabama's ten drive-ins opened since 1996.8Calvin R. Trice, "Couple seek...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...their presence did not necessarily invert or challenge white supremacist codes. In the Jackson Tract, black foremen served under the command of the white bosses who paid them to coerce...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...an important, not always dominant, factor in the emergence of "southern gospel" and the cultural function of the music. For a fuller discussion of "southern" as a racial signifier and...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...fellow conspirators, tasting two thousand oysters from all along the Gulf Coast. It was the first symposium hosted by Foodways Texas, an organization dedicated to preserving, promoting, and celebrating the...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...have two grindstones. One involves interfacing with a machine in ways that are sometimes difficult and tedious, much like archival work. Sometimes we are wrestling with code and how to...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...as forty anti-Semitic groups operating in the South at the time of the black freedom struggle. Some of these organizations promoted their cause exclusively through propaganda. Others took more direct...