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A Man of Bad Reputation
Authors: Swanson Drew A. 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Five years after the Civil War, North Carolina Republican state senator John W. Stephens was found murdered inside the Caswell County Courthouse. Stephens fought for the rights of freedpeople, and his killing by the Ku Klux Klan ultimately led to insurrection, Governor William W. Holden’s impeachment, and the early unwinding of Reconstruction in North Carolina. In recounting Stephens's murder, the subsequent investigation and court proceedings, and the long-delayed confessions that revealed what actually happened at the courthouse in 1870, Drew A. Swanson tells a story of race, politics, and social power shaped by violence and profit. The struggle for dominance in Reconstruction-era rural North Carolina, Swanson argues, was an economic and ecological transformation. Arson, beating, and murder became tools to control people and landscapes, and the ramifications of this violence continued long afterward. The failure to prosecute anyone for decades after John Stephens's assassination left behind a vacuum, as each side shaped its own memory of Stephens and his murder. The malleability of and contested storytelling around Stephens's legacy presents a window into the struggle to control the future of the South.
Promise
Authors: Swanson Drew A. 
Published: December 2024

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This chapter describes the history of Caswell County from Euro-American settlement through the Civil War, establishing the background for the political and social unrest of the Reconstruction era. The county’s growth was based on tobacco cultivation, which came to shape daily life. Likewise, enslavement became central to Caswell’s economy, social structure, and political stances. This tobacco addiction only increased with cultivation of a new variety: bright leaf. The Civil War shattered these antebellum patterns by fostering political divisions, threatening the tobacco economy, and ending enslavement, setting the stage for Reconstruction to serve as a contest between old and new visions for the county.
Winter of Our Discontent
Authors: Li Alison 
Published: December 2024

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Harry Benjamin and his wife Gretchen spent their final years cared for by a small group of friends including Charles Ihlenfeld, Christine Wheeler, Leah Schaefer and his long-time associate Virginia Allen. He was known for his kindness and concern, and he continued to take an interest in the latest research in the field. He died in 1985 at the age of 101.
The Final Fourth Rounder
Authors: Menconi David 
Published: December 2024

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Thanks to the New Orleans movie “The Big Easy,” all the Louisiana music Rounder had been releasing started doing big business in the late 1980s. Another lucky break was Rounder act Spanic Boys winding up on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” in 1990 when Sinead O’Connor pulled out at the last minute. The three Rounder founders had been seeking a fourth partner for many years and finally found it in John Virant, a Harvard-educated lawyer. After two decades, Rounder was launching acts like Nanci Griffith and Bela Fleck to the major labels – and sometimes welcoming them back afterward. Changes in the distribution business led to the dissolution of Rounder Distributing.
Raising Sand, and the Roof
Authors: Menconi David 
Published: December 2024

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Alison Krauss and Robert Plant first sang together in 2004 at a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert, launching a remarkable collaboration. T Bone Burnett produced their 2007 “Raising Sand” album, a huge sales success and album of the year Grammy winner. Rounder kept up its high release volume with work by Irma Thomas, Uncle Earl, Raffi, and Jelly Roll Morton reissues. Somehow, the Canadian progressive-rock power trio Rush wound up on Rounder, too, because Fourth Rounder John Virant was a huge fan.
Barriers
Authors: Nelson John William 
Published: December 2024

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Chapter Two takes up the story of France’s imperial visions for North America—the construction of a maritime or “Atlantic” empire within the continental interior. Encouraged by the freshwater networks of the Great Lakes region, French adventurers, missionaries, fur trade merchants and imperial officials all projected hopes of a North American empire connected by water routes that stretched from New France to lower Louisiana. French colonization efforts failed in the Great Lakes, however, as Indigenous agency and local geographic knowledge stymied French ambitions at Chicago. Meskwakis began using Chicago’s portage and other canoe routes to prey upon French traders and effectively blockade waterborne movement in the western Lakes. Escalating into the Fox Wars (named for a translation of the Meskwakis), these conflicts challenged French authority in the region by directly harnessing geographic channels like Chicago’s portage route to disrupt fur trade commerce, threaten French allies, and frustrate military operations. By the late 1740s, Chicago’s route remained an open thoroughfare for illegal traders and hostile Indians as French authority failed to penetrate this elusive space.
A Freakish Party
Authors: Woolner Cookie 
Published: December 2024

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Chapter three focuses specifically on northern Prohibition-era spaces like speakeasies, rent parties, and buffet flats, and their roles in Black lady lovers’ lives. Gladys Bentley, one of the most popular performers in Harlem at this time, who wore men’s clothing on stage and flirted with the women in her audience, is a central figure here. The relationship between sex work and Black lady lovers’ worlds is also examined, as both were overlapping forms of “outlaw” behavior associated with vice underworlds at this time, which allowed women to make independent lives from men. The oral histories of Mabel Hampton, a working-class Black woman who lived in Harlem during Prohibition are also central to this chapter as are vice reports from the citizens group the Committee of Fourteen, who surveyed Harlem nightlife spaces.
Intimate Friends and Bosom Companions
Authors: Woolner Cookie 
Published: December 2024

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Chapter four turns to Black lady lovers in “high society” from Lucy Diggs Slowe, the dean of women at Howard University, to writer and club woman Alice Dunbar-Nelson, dramatic actor Edna Thomas, Harlem Renaissance writer Dorothy West, and literary host and heiress A'Lelia Walker, the daughter of Madame CJ Walker. This chapter focuses on the strategies these “respectable” women used to take part in queer relationships in a time when they were deemed abnormal if not unimaginable. Lucy Diggs Slowe and her partner, playwright and teacher Mary Burrell, lived together in Washington DC but did not speak of themselves as romantic partners, which was common for the era with its focus on respectability.
Introduction
Authors: Márquez Cecilia 
Published: December 2024

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This book is a history of how a diverse group came to be seen as “Latino” and how southerners ascribed meaning to that categorization. By examining the evolving racial position of Latino people in the South between 1945 and 2010, Making the Latino South uncovers a very different timelines of Latino identity and community formation than elsewhere in the country. This book shows how non-Black Latino people lost their access to white privilege over the second half of the twentieth century to eventually become seen as “illegal aliens” by the dawn of the twenty-first century. In doing so, Making the Latino South tells a new history of race in the post-1945 US South, one that uncovers the central role of Blackness in the creation of the category of “Latino.”
Not a Negro
Authors: Márquez Cecilia 
Published: December 2024

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Chapter 1 examines Latino people in the 1940s in Washington DC. As Latinos arrived in the nation’s capital, which was becoming increasingly international with the arrival of embassies at the end of World War II, they were forced to navigate the strict Jim Crow segregation still enforced in Washington DC. The chapter centers on the story of Karla Galarza, a girl who was kicked out of a “colored” vocational school for not being Black. Non-Black Latinos in D.C. were “provisionally white”: able to access white spaces and institutions while still experiencing some forms of discrimination and exclusion. This chapter analyzes how Karla’s case, alongside the rest of DC’s Latino population, reveals important new insight about Jim Crow and the nature of Latino identity in the South.
Black, White, and Tan
Authors: Márquez Cecilia 
Published: December 2024

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Chapter 3 focuses on Latino activists who traveled south to participate in the southern Civil Rights Movement. Specifically looking at the role of Latinos in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, this chapter shows that in the Deep South of the 1960s, in a moment when war was being waged over the future of race, Latino communities were being sorted based on whether they were black or not-Black. This meant that non-Black Latino people occupied a fraught and eventually contested space in southern civil rights organizing as the movement became increasingly focused on Black self-determination.
I Love My Mexicans
Authors: Márquez Cecilia 
Published: December 2024

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Chapter 4, which focuses on the large-scale migration of Latinos to the southeast in the 1980s-2000s through the story of Dalton, Georgia. Dalton, the central hub of U.S. carpet manufacturing, became the home to a growing Latino community starting in the 1980s as a result of changes in immigration legislation, crises abroad, and active recruitment on the part of the carpet industry. This chapter traces how, in the post-civil rights movement era, Latino people first emerged as a cohesive non-white racial group and moved from “provisionally white” to racially other when they became “Hispanic.” More specifically, this chapter details how both Latino and white Daltonians mobilized the language of “Hardworking immigrants” to justify bilingual education programs and other resources necessary to support the growing Latino community.
The Aliens Are Here
Authors: Márquez Cecilia 
Published: December 2024

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Chapter 5 represents yet another moment of transformation as perceptions of Latinos people in the South changed from hardworking immigrants to “illegal aliens.” This chapter looks at the first two waves of anti-immigrant legislation enacted in the South to show how race for Latino communities after the September 11th terrorist attacks and again during the Great Recession in 2008. It shows how in some communities, the same people who lived as “provisionally white” and then became “Hardworking Hispanic immigrants,” would eventually find themselves maligned as “illegal aliens.”
Mutual Visits
Authors: Dizon Mark 
Published: December 2024

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This chapter starts with the grand visits to Manila by Indigenous chiefs prior to conversion. It then situates these visits within the context of the general movement of people in the hinterland, particularly the initial feelers sent out by parish priests and their parishioners and the official inspection tours conducted by Spanish judges, bishops, and provincials. However, missionary attempts at penetrating inland depended on intermediaries and permissions. Simple everyday visits among friends and kin connected people together at an intimate personal level. Visits underpinned the conversion and alliances that spanned the borderland because they made affinity and kinship palpable and real. Instead of generic concepts of conquest and conversion, mobility in the form of visits and meetings transformed strangers into relatives.
Teak and Trade
Authors: Cothran Boyd , Shubert Adrian 
Published: December 2024

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The 1850s were a time of extraordinary change on a global scale as a variety of forces reshaped the world. The East India Company, which had long held a monopoly over trade with British India, had given way to the emerging dynamics of global free trade and global migrations that would characterize the second half of the nineteenth century. But trade was not the only force driving globalization. The increasingly colonial nature of relationships between European and other powers and Indigenous societies in the mid-1800s also drove the world closer together even as imperial struggles for control of the eastern Mediterranean brought them into conflict. This chapter explores these dynamics through the story of the construction of the Edwin Fox and its maiden voyage from Calcutta to London. It also examines the Edwin Fox’s first career as a troop transport vessel for the British Army during the Crimean War.
Convicts
Authors: Cothran Boyd , Shubert Adrian 
Published: December 2024

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In 1858, the Edwin Fox departed Gravesend with a shipment of 280 convicts bound for a penal colony in Western Australia. Penal colonies have a long global history stretching back into the eighteenth century. Indeed, after the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the transportation of indentured laborers, the transportation of prisoners to various penal colonies throughout the world was the third largest form of unfree migration in human history. This chapter tells the story of this global system of punitive mobility, which sought to punish perceived criminals, extract valuable labor from unwilling bodies, managed populations both in the homeland and in sites of incarnation, and propelled imperial expansion and colonization. This chapter explores the background of the convicts onboard the Edwin Fox and traces their experiences after arriving in Western Australia. It situates these penal colonies within the story of nineteenth century globalization. It argues that remote colonies like Western Australia turned to penal colonialism as a strategy for integrating itself into global networks of trade, knowledge, and governance and that the nineteenth century carceral state reinforced and advanced the larger project of settler colonialism throughout the antipodes, with dire consequences for Indigenous populations there.
Factors Influencing Students’ Choice of the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Pathway in the Central Region of Ghana
Authors: Boateng Christina , Ackon Frank , Nyarko Isaac Kwadwo 
Published: December 2024

This study investigates the factors influencing Ghanaian students' choice of technical and vocational education (TVET) career pathway. The study was guided by the social cognitive career theory and the expectation-value theory. The cross-sectional descriptive survey design was used to explore the critical factors influencing students’ technical and vocational education choices. Specifically, the study explored the demographic profile of TVET students, determined the factors the factors that influenced their enrolment into TVET programmes, and their level of satisfaction with the choices they are pursuing. The targeted population were students enrolled in TVET programmes in two Technical Institutes in the Cape Coast Metropolis. Using the census method, a structured questionnaire was used to collect data from 245 participants. Data collected were analysed and interpreted using descriptive statistics. The study revealed that parental influence, particularly from fathers, is the primary motivating factor. Other motivators included interest in practical skills, opportunity for self-employment, and job prospects. Respondents also reported that the negative perceptions about TVET, associating it with lower academic ability and prestige always affect their motivation. However, students expressed satisfaction with their decision and choice of programmes citing the practical aspects, teaching methods, availability of tools and equipment and overall school environment as factors driving their interest and satisfaction. Notwithstanding, some respondents saw the cost of programme and support for placement as factors that negate their decision The study concludes that, engaging parents and school agents, promoting public awareness, enhancing TVET’s image and aligning curricula with industry while offering assistance with internship, placement and financial support could improve enrollment rates. It is therefore recommended that parents be engaged in career guidance programmes and teachers trained to offer balanced career advice to students. Additionally, efforts must be made to align TVET programme curricula with industry needs and improve school infrastructure to enhance the appeal of TVET programmes, while financial support is provided for students to help increase programme accessibility.
Post-fire evolution of ravel transport regimes in the Diablo Range, CA
Authors: Jacobson Hayden L. , Roth Danica L. , Walton Gabriel , Zimmer Margaret , Johnson Kerri 
Published: December 2024

Abstract. Post-fire changes to the transport regime of dry ravel, which describes the gravity-driven transport of individual particles downslope, are poorly constrained but critical to understand as ravel may contribute to elevated sediment fluxes and associated debris flow activity observed post-fire in the western United States. In this study, we evaluated post-fire variability in dry ravel travel distance exceedance probabilities and disentrainment rates in the Diablo Range of central coastal California following the Santa Clara Unit Lightning Complex fire of August 2020. Between March 2021 and March 2022, we conducted repeat field experiments simulating ravel with in situ particles (3–35 mm diameter) on a range of experimental surface gradients (0.38–0.81) on both grassy south-facing slopes and oak woodland north-facing slopes. We characterized post-fire evolution in particle transport by fitting a probabilistic Lomax distribution model to the empirical travel distance exceedance probabilities for each experimental particle size, surface gradient, and time period. The resulting Lomax shape and scale parameters were used to identify the transport regime for each subset of simulated ravel, ranging from “bounded” (light-tailed or local) to “runaway” (heavy-tailed or nonlocal) motion. Our experimental results indicated that as vegetation recovered over the first 2 years post-fire, the behavior of small particles (median intermediate axis of 6 mm) became less similar across the experimental sites due to different vegetation structures, whereas medium and large particles (median intermediate axes of 13 and 28 mm, respectively) exhibited a general transition from more runaway to more bounded transport, and large particles became less sensitive to surface gradient. All particle sizes exhibited a decrease in the length scale of transport with time. Of all particle subsets, larger particles on steeper slopes were more likely to experience nonlocal transport, consistent with previous observations and theory. These findings are further corroborated by hillslope and channel deposits, which suggest that large particles were preferentially evacuated from the hillslope to the channel during or immediately after the fire. Our results indicate that nonlocal transport of in situ particles likely occurs in the experimental study catchment, and the presence of wildfire increases the likelihood of nonlocal transport, particularly on steeper slopes.
Enhanced Predictive Analysis of Online Consumer Purchase Psychology using Deep Learning
Authors: B. Amarnath Reddy  
Published: December 2024

The idea of using the Internet to trade goods and services has grown in popularity at an exponential rate. Because of the Internet, online transactions have advanced significantly, removing the limitations of physical locations and currencies. The anonymity of the Internet, however, does not make it a perfect place for paying for things. With the rise of online transactions has come an equal and opposite rise in the frequency of assaults targeting the safety of online systems. Fraudulent transactions on auction sites and e-commerce online applications have been getting worse recently. Some of these fraudulent e-commerce transactions are the result of actual hacks into these websites. Unfortunately, despite widespread knowledge of these facts, no workable solution to the issue of application-based attacks in e-commerce has been found as of yet.
The Author-Agent-Editor Relation: American Pulps in the Interwar Period
Authors: Yan Zi-Ling 
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACT
Virtually no research treats exchanges between authors and agents and their relations with editors in the pulp magazines of the twenties and thirties. Through unpublished archival correspondence and other contemporaneous sources (memoirs, trade journals), this article demonstrates how, despite socioeconomic differences and significant distinctions between the pulp world and that of book publishing several decades later, many of the same author, agent, and editor relations documented in more recent criticism were present in the interwar period. As with modern publishing, the literary agent exercised a discernible impact on the content of American pulp magazines of that era.
Volume of the filtering bleb in prediction of the effectiveness of glaucoma surgery: preliminary results
Authors: Erichev V. P. , Novikov I. A. , Khachatryan G. K. , Makarova A. S. , Budzinskaya M. V. , Tarasenkov A. O. 
Published: December 2024

PURPOSE. To explore the potential for predicting the hypotensive effectiveness of glaucoma surgeries based on the parameters of the filtering bleb (FB) measured using optical coherence tomography (OCT).METHODS. The study included 15 patients (15 eyes) with uncontrolled primary open-angle glaucoma, who underwent standard glaucoma surgery: sinus trabeculectomy with basal iridectomy. Objective assessment of the FB was performed using OCT on postoperative day 2, and then at 7 days, 1 month, and 3 months after surgery. Based on the OCT scans, a three-dimensional model of the FB was constructed, and its volume was calculated.RESULTS. In 3 patients, by the end of the observation period, the FB volume was less than 5.7 mm³, which was associated with an unsuccessful surgical outcome and an increase in intraocular pressure (IOP) to 22.1±3.2 mm Hg. These patients were prescribed hypotensive therapy to achieve target IOP levels. In the other 12 patients, the IOP remained below 14 mm Hg throughout the observation period, with an average IOP of 11.7±2.3 mm Hg. The FB in these patients was diffuse, and its volume exceeded 5.7 mm³. The successful outcome of the surgery allowed for these patients to avoid the need for additional hypotensive therapy.CONCLUSION. Long-term success of glaucoma surgery can be predicted using the threshold filtering bleb volume of 5.7 mm³.