Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...stories that imagined the United States as an exclusively white republic unthreatened by the linked nightmares of industrialization and racial equality. Still other writers sought to efface any trace of...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...health response in the United States to COVID-19 was uneven across federal, state, and local entities, the narrative about disproportionate risk and mortality became apparent early and the public health...
The Shenandoah Valley
...The valley floor contains one of the richest agricultural regions in the eastern United States.Any visitor quickly loses his or her sense of direction in this setting, just as the...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...and privileges of all persons born or naturalized in the United States; due process and equal protection of the laws; House apportionment based on "the whole number of persons;" and...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...extremist National States' Rights Party and the Knights of the White Camellia.11New York Times, October 18, 1958. Role of the National States' Rights Party Founded in August 1958, the National...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...and a book that has nothing to do with this section of the United States. That is because Comentale's interests lie in the ways vernacular modernism "eroded local ties and...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...the Sword: The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862–1867 (Washington, DC: US Army Center of Military History, United States Army, 2011), 501; Thavolia Glymph, The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...of environmental activists came from all over the United States—mostly the eastern United States—but there were kids from New England, from the South, and they were working with a local...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...1939 (second quote), Folder "Tenant Farming, 1939-1944," Box 1, Official File 1650, FDR; Carey McWilliams, Ill Fares the Land: Migrants and Migratory Labor in the United States (Boston: Little, Brown,...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...with the cost of flights and the initial recovery period in a hotel, it was cheaper to do so there than in the United States. Hearing her story, Ash insisted...