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The defense of states' rights by white southerners in the post–World War II era has long been understood as a strategy to prevent federal interference with racial segregation. By tracing the relocation of the Alexander Smith Carpet Company from Yonkers, New York, to Greenville, Mississippi, in the early 1950s, Tami J. Friedman shows that upholding states' rights had economic as well as racial connotations. The argument for states' rights appealed to northern businessmen seeking favorable investment climates as well as to southern boosters who hoped industrialization would help preserve their region's racial and political status quo. This essay explores how a shared commitment to capital migration united northern and southern leaders across regional boundaries, increasing the vulnerability of workers and communities to corporate power on both sides of the North-South divide.
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Following the publication of Alfred C. Kinsey's two most famous works—Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953)— his critics branded him as a foe of traditional religion and an enemy of American Christian values. Kinsey's disdain for what he saw as outdated religious moralizing about issues such as premarital and homosexual sex is apparent, but, R. Marie Griffith shows, he had ties to important liberal Protestant leaders. By exploring Kinsey's correspondence with members of the clergy and tracing the work on sexual issues that many of those religious leaders pursued after his death, Griffith analyzes Kinsey's impact on religious ideas about sex in both liberal and conservative religious circles. Seeing Kinsey's influence on religious liberals helps us rethink the complicated relationship between religion and sexuality, and the so-called culture wars, in recent U.S. history.
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What does increasing interest in the multidisciplinary study of the senses have to offer historians? This Journal of American History round table, guest edited by Mark M. Smith, offers essays by Smith, Gerard J. Fitzgerald and Gabriella M. Petrick, Connie Y. Chiang, Richard Cullen Rath, James W. Cook, and David Howes that acquaint readers with the historiography of touch, taste, smell, sound, and sight. The essays offer case studies suggestive of how historians might attend to the senses in their own work.
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