And it is a pleasure to be here today with the Honors College students in the university of south. 421 course what the south made exhibiting South Carolinas industrial i want to start with a quote this quote comes from a very prominent american historian a guy named ed ayres who while the coal mines and textile mills have become a visible and memorable part of southern history, the souths largest industry remained virtually ignored. Lumbering is often written off as of little consequence, and little dramatic interest, yet lumbering more often than any other industry, captures the full scope of economic change in the new south, its limitations as well as its impact and about, i dont know, a third of the way through the semester. And i think you guys are already kind of convinced of this, but i thought it might be interesting to share with you a little bit more about how we got to this place. So. About five or six years ago, the National Park reached out to uscs department of history and
Today we are talking the west mine wars. This is for for our class. This is really the beginning of a of a new section after your midterm. So this is a point were going to start today by looking at some some big picture concepts, concepts that weve talked about, maybe looking at some maps that weve already seen this semester. And are going to use those to kind of touch base throughout this lecture and, look at those concepts and get a better understanding of how these these two sections of the class connect with one another. So first, i know ive showed you these maps before, or at least some version of them might be a little a little more updated then the ones that i was showing at the beginning, the semester. But these are maps i use a lot, maps that i use plenty in in these classes. And i think that can tell us many stories. Right . Not just about the United States, but particularly for us, whats happening in in appalachia and the structural, systematic social issues as poverty rate,
Today we are talking the west mine wars. This is for for our class. This is really the beginning of a of a new section after your midterm. So this is a point were going to start today by looking at some some big picture concepts, concepts that weve talked about, maybe looking at some maps that weve already seen this semester. And are going to use those to kind of touch base throughout this lecture and, look at those concepts and get a better understanding of how these these two sections of the class connect with one another. So first, i know ive showed you these maps before, or at least some version of them might be a little a little more updated then the ones that i was showing at the beginning, the semester. But these are maps i use a lot, maps that i use plenty in in these classes. And i think that can tell us many stories. Right . Not just about the United States, but particularly for us, whats happening in in appalachia and the structural, systematic social issues as poverty rate,
Today we are talking the west mine wars. This is for for our class. This is really the beginning of a of a new section after your midterm. So this is a point were going to start today by looking at some some big picture concepts, concepts that weve talked about, maybe looking at some maps that weve already seen this semester. And are going to use those to kind of touch base throughout this lecture and, look at those concepts and get a better understanding of how these these two sections of the class connect with one another. So first, i know ive showed you these maps before, or at least some version of them might be a little a little more updated then the ones that i was showing at the beginning, the semester. But these are maps i use a lot, maps that i use plenty in in these classes. And i think that can tell us many stories. Right . Not just about the United States, but particularly for us, whats happening in in appalachia and the structural, systematic social issues as poverty rate,