Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...Wang, 2000); Peck, Reinventing Free Labor. Labor agents used two strategies in recruitment. First, they operated within immigrant populations experiencing high levels of unemployment and relied on social networks such...
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...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...setting of her fiction not only because it is familiar, but also because she finds a means of entering, through its peculiar apertures, an altogether different metaphysical locus. For this...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...argues that these promoters "helped instill new pathways of prosperity and steer[ed] a course of transnational connections between the United States and Mexico during the second half of the nineteenth...
Palomares Bajo
...determine the "revolutionary use value" in owning up to historical wrongs and in allying with the people of Palomares to right them.5Walter Benjamin, "The Author as Producer," in Thinking Photographically,...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...tax-free foundations, think-tanks, and funding agencies concluded that these organizations had spent between $2.5 and $3 billion from 1970 to 2003 in order to promote their ideas.19The National Committee for...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...in London from illness cut short her attempts at diplomacy and the promotion of coexistence between the two polities.14 Ibid., esp. 85–158. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as British...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...Communist Party vice-presidential candidate James W. Ford in October 1936, Daniels wrote a scolding editorial denouncing Ericson's action, not because Ford was a communist, but because he was black.22Eagles, Jonathan Daniels...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...Jupiter, El Sol, that had done such good work. But I have gotten ahead of myself because Guestworker came first. I worked with Cynthia Hill on that because I had...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...Spaces, I am invested in making our journal better and in promoting open-access knowledge, so I spend time thinking about Wikipedia. On my to-do list for a while has been...