The individual projects of Frederick Baldwin and Wendy Watriss, together with their thirteen-year documentary collaboration on three different cultural frontiers in Texas, are gathered here. What connects them all is a commitment to explore social history beyond the clichés of class and race.

In Watriss's work on Vietnam, the frames emerge from a sense of outrage at the injustice perpetrated on veterans by their own government. In Baldwin's work on civil rights in Georgia and on the lives of poor whites, they provide an intimate glimpse of survival in a struggle for dignity and justice. Together they reveal the human face of a complex history with particular relevance to the values and political philosophy behind momentous change in the country.