Cajun South Louisiana
...speakers as English among Louisianas free population; by 1860, 70 percent of Louisianas free population spoke English. 1800s Language change was part of a broader process of Acadian acceptance of...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
Review Understanding the creation of social spaces in an unfamiliar landscape is, according to Robert Paulett, a productive way to account for eighteenth-century developments in the American Southeast, particularly in...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...board decided to immediately travel north "for the sake of the preservation of their health." According to Thekla's account, she and Max retired to their quarters where they held each...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...restorative. Wilderness has been erroneously thought of as an escape, rather than as engagement with the here and now. "In wildness is the preservation of the world," Thoreau mused, wandering...
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...environmental justice, environmental racism, agroecology, landscape architecture, eco-literature, ecological historic preservation, sustainability, biodiversity, foodways, activism, eco-feminism, deep ecology, environmental law, ethical consumerism, corporate environmental policy, environmental ethics, spirituality and religion,...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...go without adopting the radical policy of widespread abolition. Here again, Custis was typical of slave owners in arguing for colonization not from recognition of the humanity of his charges...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...nature preservation. This builds on important recent work in nineteenth-century environmental history, such as Catherine McNeur's Taming Manhattan and Carl Zimring's Clean and White, and buttresses the argument for long...
Palomares Bajo
...Fusion Bomb over Andalucía: U.S. Information Policy and the 1966 Palomares Incident," Journal of Cold War Studies 8 (Winter 2006): 56. Christopher Morris, The Big Catch (Maidstone, Kent: Angley, 1966),...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...Diaspora."1For more about the New Latino Diaspora, see S. Wortham, E.G. Murillo Jr., and E.T. Hamann, Education in the New Latino Diaspora: Policy and the Politics of Identity (Westport, CT: Ablex, 2002)....
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...a struggle that has lasted more than fifty years, activists have persistently challenged physicians, lawyers, and policymakers over the meaning of this disease; at different times, they have been able...