Palomares Bajo
...boon to struggling economies. Accidents in Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas had been mercifully free of thermonuclear explosions—and, it seems, of significant radioactive contamination. In this...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...Suite in the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas, Texas, and traveled frequently. After John’s death in 1950, Mary Kate and her sister Rosa continued to travel, accompanied by their nieces. Whole...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...Texas Gladden but, in Cunningham's words, "it was marred by its tight structure." By contrast, Cohen's film transcended simple depictions of folk musicians playing their instruments. Most viewers, Cunningham believed,...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...(Lowell Mason's brother, Timothy, moved to Cincinnati (Bealle, 29)), it put down firm roots in regions of the South. As immigrants moved southward from Pennsylvania into Virginia and the Carolinas,...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...South, which includes the twelve states listed above as well as Kentucky, Texas, and West Virginia. In 2018, more than $2.1 billion dollars in state funds went to support private...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Slave Trade (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013); Whitney Nell Stuart and John Garrison Marks, eds., Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018);...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...Persistence in Indian New England (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1997), 115, 121–24, 127. Pupils at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Pennsylvania, ca. 1900. Photograph by unknown creator. Courtesy of...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...South."31Matthew Countryman, Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006), 10. The Mitch Thomas Show teenagers would also have been familiar with segregation...
Nearly exhausted sulphur vat from which railroad cars are loaded, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas, 1943
Pennybacker Bridge, Austin, Texas, 2010