Marginalization, Mobility, and Sunday Strolls on the Farm
...After buying rural routes from the Kerrville Bus Company in 2012, the discount travel company Megabus recently discontinued service to small towns in Texas' Southwest Area Regional Transit District, leaving...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...The New Orleans Advocate, August 25, 2015. Pipeline from Southwest to Atlantic Coast, 1944. Photograph courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USW4- 029616. Without losing sight of technical details,...
Per Capita Income and Percentage of Residents Living Below the Poverty Line in Georgia Counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Region
...(directly north and southwest of Columbus), all the counties are poorer than the state average. Troup Below poverty line %: 14.8 Per capita income: $17,626 Harris Below poverty line %:...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...definitive account of these protests.1Raymond Arsenault, Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, Pivotal Moments in American History. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Ninety miles southwest of...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...a key player in the city's racially-shifting midcentury real estate business and power structure. Collier Heights, originally a predominately white neighborhood in Atlanta’s southwest corner, would not have welcomed Russell...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
Review Open Cameron B. Strang's Frontiers of Science and you will encounter a fascinating frontispiece that receives no mention in the remarkable study that follows. The image is perhaps too...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...slavery" (100). Perhaps annexation's most tumultuous legacy, however, was the war with Mexico. Conquest in the Southwest and brinksmanship in the Northwest affirmed the Polk administration's commitment to the foreign policy...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
Review Photographer unknown, Unidentified miners from southwest Virginia, 1930s. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia. Amid the current wave of anti-immigrant sentiment, numerous US cities and states are reexamining their...
Birdhouses
...in the raucous chorus my family hears from our deck in southwest Virginia. We love the colors of that chorus and the flitting entertainment, though, so I keep three feeders...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...taken up hookworm and pellagra as challenges. Funding for health reform began to increase after World War I. New Deal spending doubled the number of county health departments, from 396 in...