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American Studies
July 10, 2020
Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire
Puerto Rican Workers on U.S. Farms
Ismael Garcia-Colon
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Beth English
Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire: Puerto Rican Workers on U.S. Farms (University of California Press, 2020) is the first in-depth look at the experiences of Puerto Rican migrant …
American South
June 24, 2020
The Southern Key
Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s
Michael Goldfield
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Beth English
The golden key to understanding the last 75 years of American political development, the eminent labor relations scholar Michael Goldfield argues, lies in the contests between labor and capital in …
American South
April 15, 2020
Red, Black, White
The Alabama Communist Party, 1930–1950
Mary Stanton
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Beth English
Mary Stanton's Red, Black, White: The Alabama Communist Party, 1930–1950 (University of Georgia Press, 2019) is the first narrative history of the American communist movement in the South since Robin …
American South
April 3, 2020
Knocking on Labor’s Door
Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide
Lane Windham
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Beth English
Lane Windham, Associate Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University, discusses her book, Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and …
American South
March 27, 2020
To Live Here, You Have to Fight
How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice
Jessica Wilkerson
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Beth English
Jessica Wilkerson, Assistant Professor of History and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi, discusses her book, To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for …
American South
March 20, 2020
From South Texas to the Nation
The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century
John Weber
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Beth English
John Weber, Assistant Professor of History at Old Dominion University, discusses his book, From South Texas to the Nation: The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century (University of …
American South
March 13, 2020
Women’s Diaries and Letters of the South
Melissa Walker and Giselle Roberts
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Beth English
Professors Melissa Walker of Converse College and Giselle Roberts of Australia’s La Trobe University, editors of the Women’s Diaries and Letters of the South series, discuss the field of documentary …
American South
February 28, 2020
Baptized in PCBs
Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town
Ellen Griffith Spears
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Beth English
Professor Ellen Griffith Spears of the University of Alabama, author of Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town (University of North Carolina Press, 2016) discusses the …
American South
February 26, 2020
Politics of the Pantry
Housewives, Food, and Consumer Protest in Twentieth-Century America
Emily E. LB. Twarog
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Beth English
The history of women's political involvement has focused heavily on electoral politics, but throughout the twentieth century women engaged in grassroots activism when they found it increasingly challenging to feed …
American South
February 21, 2020
The Hamlet Fire
A Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives
Bryant Simon
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Beth English
Bryant Simon, Professor of History at Temple University, discusses his new book, The Hamlet Fire: A Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives (The New Press, 2017), and …
American South
February 14, 2020
Denmark Vesey’s Garden
Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy
Blain Roberts and Ethan J. Kytle
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Beth English
Blain Roberts and Ethan J. Kytle, Professors of History at California State University—Fresno, discuss their co-authored book, Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy (The …
American South
February 7, 2020
Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women
Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South
Blain Roberts
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Beth English
Professor Blain Roberts of California State University, Fresno, talks about intersections of race, identity, and memory in the South in a wide-ranging discussion that starts in the segregated beauty parlors …
American South
January 31, 2020
Disaster Citizenship
Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era
Jacob Remes
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Beth English
Professor Jacob Remes of SUNY Empire State College discusses his book, Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era (University of Illinois Press, 2015), and challenges prevailing assumptions …
American South
January 24, 2020
Standing Their Ground
Small Farmers in North Carolina Since the Civil War
Adrienne Petty
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Beth English
Professor Adrienne Petty discusses her book, Standing Their Ground: Small Farmers in North Carolina Since the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2013), about the black and white farmers in the …
American South
January 17, 2020
Hillbilly Hellraisers
Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks
Blake Perkins
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Beth English
Blake Perkins, assistant professor of history at Williams Baptist College, discusses his new book, Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks (University of Illinois Press, 2017), regional …
American South
January 14, 2020
Sisters and Rebels
A Struggle for the Soul of America
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
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Beth English
Descendants of a prominent slaveholding family, Elizabeth, Grace, and Katharine Lumpkin grew up in a culture of white supremacy. But while Elizabeth remained a lifelong believer, her younger sisters chose …
American South
January 10, 2020
Reform or Repression
Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement
Chad Pearson
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Beth English
Professor Chad Pearson of Collin College, author of Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015) traces the roots of modern anti-unionism in the U.S. to …
American South
January 3, 2020
Masterless Men
Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
Keri Leigh Merritt
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Beth English
Keri Leigh Merritt discusses her book, Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and intersections of race, class, politics, and slavery in the …
American South
December 27, 2019
Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid
Alex Lichtenstein and Rick Halpern
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Beth English
Alex Lichtenstein, Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, discusses his new book with co-author Rick Halpern, Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid (Indiana University Press, 2016) photojournalism, and …
American South
December 20, 2019
Chained in Silence
Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South
Talitha LeFlouria
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Beth English
Professor Talitha LeFlouria, a fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia, discusses her book, Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New …
American South
December 13, 2019
Dollars for Dixie
Business and the Transformation of Conservatism in the Twentieth Century
Katherine Rye Jewell
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Beth English
Katherine Rye Jewell, Assistant Professor of History at Fitchburg State University, discusses her book, Dollars for Dixie: Business and the Transformation of Conservatism in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press …
American South
December 6, 2019
Reconsidering Southern Labor History
Race, Class, and Power
Matthew Hild and Keri Leigh Merritt
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Beth English
Matthew Hild and Keri Leigh Merritt discuss their new edited volume, Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power (University Press of Florida, 2018), the nexus of race, class and …
American South
November 29, 2019
The Fruits of Their Labor
Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945
Cindy Hahamovitch
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Beth English
Today Professor Cindy Hahamovitch of the University of Georgia discusses her research connecting the global histories of 19th-century indentured servants and today's guestworkers. In 1933 Congress granted American laborers the …
American South
November 22, 2019
Striking Beauties
Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000
Michelle Haberland
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Beth English
Professor Michelle Haberland of Georgia Southern University, author of Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South (University of Georgia Press, 2015), discusses the dynamics of gender, class, race …
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