Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...on that day—suggest the potential power of strategies that include and unite. Today the union at the Morristown chicken plant survives but faces tough challenges. Many poultry processing plants remain...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...Ozarks. The store is the modern-day equivalent of the old-timey gristmill, a place of congregation for anyone with a minute to spare. I began the Arkansas component of a long-term...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...million dollars, and spent widely on mailers, door-to-door canvassing, phone banks and television ad buys. The leading opposition group, the Transportation Leadership Coalition, made do with little more than $14,000...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...turns out, the transfer of McDonald's son to Dinsmoor's care was not unique. In the decades following the US Revolution, a number of American Indian women and men and elite US whites...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...He asks for help. If he's told no, he asks again or finds someone else. At 8:30 one Sunday morning many years ago, for example, my phone rang. "Were you...
The Liminal Site
...Arbor Day Foundation—hardly a political organization—published, based on the past fifteen years' climate data, its independent revision of the USDA's 1990 map of climate hardiness zones (arborday.org/media/zones.cfm), reinforcing what gardeners...
The Shenandoah Valley
The Shenandoah Valley Edward Beyer, Digital Restoration of "Harper's Ferry from Jefferson Rock" from Album of Virginia: Illustrations of the Old Dominion, 1858. The Shenandoah Valley's history marks it as...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...Eastern Branch in the District of Columbia, in present day Anacostia, age forty-two, born in Maryland around 1821. The 1870 census shows William and Bridget Tinney living east of Seventh...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...rates increased. Day in and day out, enslaved people chipped away at enslavers' authority locally, by negotiating the terms of their manumission and land access. They pulled one another out...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...hold on to it in a different way and walk around with it. At some point in “Nights and Days of Nineteen-Something,” he writes, Hear Jericho Brown read "Nights and Days...