Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...try to involve their children in the operation; one son even dons a tiger suit to promote the theater during special events. Commerce Drive-In - Commerce, Georgia Two parallel driveways...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...Mails," Raleigh (NC) Register, reprinted in North Star (Rochester, NY), October 5, 1849, https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84026365/1849-10-05/ed-1/?sp=1&r=0.086,0.73,0.275,0.143,0. When local law officials found Barrett at Colonel R. C. Poole's Spartanburg hotel, the suspect materials, including...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...dirt track racers defying death in stripped-down vehicles with high performance engines, the glitz and product promotion of modern day NASCAR, and the window-tinted, stretch-limo world of rap culture. Country...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...elaborate networks of peonage labor that involved trafficking workers, coercing their labor, and threatening criminal prosecution or even death if they attempted to flee. Scholars such as Pete Daniel, Jacqueline...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...accommodations that he had seen in Chattanooga, Atlanta, Macon, and elsewhere.1"A Step Backward," Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, September 19, 1891, 98. Built and maintained by the railroads, colored waiting rooms...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...electric knives, and electric ice crushers.21"Sunbeam Clocks Made in Forest." A BAWI bond of nearly one million dollars facilitated construction of a state-of-the-art, air-conditioned Sunbeam factory, which provided jobs to...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...2004 children's novel, and a work of historical fiction.4See Davis McCombs's Ultima Thule (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), Elizabeth Mitchell's Journey to the Bottomless Pit: The Story of Stephen Bishop and Mammoth...
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...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...approximately 86 percent of Kansas families could be eligible for a voucher. In Utah, families with a child eligible to attend public schools can receive up to $8,000. Legislation introduced...
"Aint that Something?"
...include Silas House, Ann Pancake, Amy Greene, and David Joy, among many others. Appalachian authors of color including Nikky Finney, Crystal Wilkinson, Jacinda Townsend, and Frank X Walker dispel pervasive...