Category: Contributors

Brett J. Derbes: Doctoral Candidate, History Department at Auburn University

Interview is with Brett J. Derbes, a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Auburn University. Brett works for the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) in Austin, Texas, as Managing Editor of the Handbook of Texas. Contributor:Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power  Tell us a about your essay, “Origins of the Prison Industrial Complex: […]

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Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, Lecturer at Rutgers University

Interview is with Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, Lecturer and Coordinator of Public History at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Contributor: Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power  Was there a specific motive to write, “‘Vagrant Negroes’: The Policing of Labor and Mobility in the Upper South in the Early Republic.” ? Since the colonial era, the […]

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