Local history

Established in south-central New Mexico at the end of World War II, White Sands Missile Range is the largest overland military reserve in the western hemisphere.

Gifts from the Thunder Beings examines North American Aboriginal peoples' use of Indigenous and European distance weapons in big-game hunting and combat.

A history that is equal parts science and mythology, Sacred Sites offers a rare and poetic vision of a world composed of dynamic natural emphases and mythic characters.

At its height the Creek Nation comprised a collection of multiethnic towns and villages with a domain stretching across large parts of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida.

Marsh makes commendable use of the scant documentary evidence to piece together Hannah Freemans life.

Company town.

Born in the hamlet of Mount Gilead, North Carolina, Julius Chambers (19362013) escaped the fetters of the Jim Crow South to emerge in the 1960s and 1970s as the nations leading African American civil rights attorney.

Built by local entrepreneurs during Dixies Cotton Mill in Dalton, Georgia, acted as a magnet for thousands of newly impoverished white farm families who moved to the factory and its company-owned village from the surrounding countryside.

In the late eighteenth century, Hawai'is ruling elite employed sophisticated methods for resisting foreign intrusion.

In the first book-length history of Puerto Rican civil rights in New York City, Sonia Lee traces the rise and fall of an uneasy coalition between Puerto Rican and African American activists from the 1950s through the 1970s.

In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the character of the South, and even its persistence as a distinct region, was an open question.

At the turn of the twentieth century, good highways eluded most Americans and nearly all southerners.

Are you considered a dingbatter, or outsider, when you visit the Outer Banks?

In the 1940s South, it seemed that non-Black Latino people were on the road to whiteness.

In the 1940s South, it seemed that non-Black Latino people were on the road to whiteness.

Daniel Clark demonstrates the dramatic impact unionization made on the lives of textile workers in Henderson, North Carolina, in the decade after World War II.

Southern Cultures Volume 20: Number 1 Summer 2014Table of ContentsFront Porchby Jocelyn R.

Southern Cultures: The Help Special IssueVolume 20: Number 1 Spring 2014Table of ContentsFront Porch,by Harry L.

Company town.

Southern Cultures: The Help Special IssueVolume 20: Number 1 Spring 2014Table of ContentsFront Porch,by Harry L.

Southern Cultures Volume 20: Number 1 Summer 2014Table of ContentsFront Porchby Jocelyn R.

The Winter 2014 Issue brings us duels and Dashboard Poets, eels and fauxvillages, a beloved television icon, interviews with liberal hero Walter Mondaleand conservative activist Jack Kershaw, Civil War battlefi eld monuments, andmore.

New Orleans is a city that is rich in culture, music, and history.

At the turn of the twentieth century, good highways eluded most Americans and nearly all southerners.

The Colorado River region looms large in the history of the American West, vitally important in the designs and dreams of Euro-Americans since the first Spanish journey up the river in the sixteenth century.

The Praying South and the Fighting South are two of our most popular images of white southern culture.

New Orleans is a city that is rich in culture, music, and history.

At the turn of the twentieth century, good highways eluded most Americans and nearly all southerners.

The first birth control clinic in El Paso, Texas, opened in 1937.

The Winter 2014 Issue brings us duels and Dashboard Poets, eels and fauxvillages, a beloved television icon, interviews with liberal hero Walter Mondaleand conservative activist Jack Kershaw, Civil War battlefi eld monuments, andmore.

The federal governments attempt to enforce civil rights measures during Reconstruction is usually regarded as a failure.

The Colorado River region looms large in the history of the American West, vitally important in the designs and dreams of Euro-Americans since the first Spanish journey up the river in the sixteenth century.

The Praying South and the Fighting South are two of our most popular images of white southern culture.

At the turn of the twentieth century, good highways eluded most Americans and nearly all southerners.

Are you considered a dingbatter, or outsider, when you visit the Outer Banks?

In the late eighteenth century, Hawai'is ruling elite employed sophisticated methods for resisting foreign intrusion.

In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the character of the South, and even its persistence as a distinct region, was an open question.

In the first book-length history of Puerto Rican civil rights in New York City, Sonia Lee traces the rise and fall of an uneasy coalition between Puerto Rican and African American activists from the 1950s through the 1970s.

At the turn of the twentieth century, good highways eluded most Americans and nearly all southerners.

The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity of slavery (coded as black) and full citizenship (coded as white as well as male).

The first birth control clinic in El Paso, Texas, opened in 1937.

There is nothing 'little' about the history of Essex!

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In the Fall 2014 issue of Southern CulturesFrom mullet fishing on Browns Island to shrimping on the Gulf Coast, from recreation on the Great Lakes of the South to coastal tourism in the Sunbelt and tramping in the swampy lowlands of eastern NC, we take a look at tourisms vital role in regional economies and the challenges of conservation and sustainability.

In the Fall 2014 issue of Southern CulturesFrom mullet fishing on Browns Island to shrimping on the Gulf Coast, from recreation on the Great Lakes of the South to coastal tourism in the Sunbelt and tramping in the swampy lowlands of eastern NC, we take a look at tourisms vital role in regional economies and the challenges of conservation and sustainability.

The federal governments attempt to enforce civil rights measures during Reconstruction is usually regarded as a failure.

Although North Carolina was a home front state rather than a battlefield state for most of the Civil War, it was heavily involved in the Confederate war effort and experienced many conflicts as a result.

David Cecelski chronicles one of the most sustained and successful protests of the civil rights movement the 196869 school boycott in Hyde County, North Carolina.

Since the nineteenth century, the distinct tones of kk kila, the Hawaiian steel guitar, have defined the island sound.

For more than thirty years, the architectural research department at Colonial Williamsburg has engaged in comprehensive study of early buildings, landscapes, and social history in the Chesapeake region.