"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...various species and how to maintain pure seed varieties. Specifically she indicates that because she has more than one corn variety in her field she must separate them to prevent...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...their values and aspirations as upcountry gentry. The fabric is a roller-printed chintz, which in this period referred to cotton fabrics printed in floral designs with several colors and finished...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...1656 Timucua Rebellion. La Florida's governor, Franciscan missionaries, and Timicua Indians each worked to channel the flow of information and shape it to their particular narrative. The governor blamed the...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...the town's industrial capacity and access to natural resources and cheap labor. As Spears notes, Anniston was founded as an experiment during Reconstruction and by the 1880s had been dubbed...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...purity and primitivism took on enhanced value . . ." (3). One thing that distinguishes Cohen from the Lomaxes is Cohen's independence from any institutional affiliation like the Library of...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...continue beyond the first half of 2010. From June 2009 through March 2010, the number of jobless workers continued to grow in the South and the West. The number of...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...in fliers and newsletters sent to supporting organizations, such as the National Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression.26"J. P. Stevens Flier," undated, Box 2, Folder ‘Behavior Control," National Alliance Against...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...and the complex relationships between blacks and the land along waterfronts that range from the Potomac Flats in Washington, DC, through the Chesapeake Bay and Hampton Roads, down the Carolina...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...and create ways to live in a particular place, a process that included imagination and adaptation as well as habitation. Paulett finds that the geography of place varied with those...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...he understands the Yamasee War (a conflict from 1715 to 1717 between various Indian groups and South Carolina settlers) as a kairotic moment in the southeastern Indian slave trade and...