The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
Review The present system of flood control in the Mississippi Valley is a compromise resulting from a long and complicated interplay among interest groups. The current solution to the problem...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...nonwhites from the record. Regardless of his singular focus, Jennison makes clear that by 1800, Georgia's conservative revolutionaries could broaden their perspective when confronted by the distressing message, reach, and...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
Review Any historical account requires a framing device—temporal, thematic, or geographical—establishing the scope of enquiry. A Caribbean history typically invokes fairly settled geographical parameters that delimit the area to insular...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
Blog Post In a 2021 case from Arizona, Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., issued an opinion of the US Supreme Court—calling it a "fresh look"—that sabotages Section 2 of the...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...our own lives whom we love but can never understand completely, even if we live in and out of one another's pockets. Director Richard Linklater's previous experimental film project involving...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...would anyone want to come back here to live after having their lives so torn apart? This question was answered for me on our last afternoon of photographing. David, Emma...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...have created a planet where children can be safe, but we have not. One in ten American children live in deep poverty; 2.8 million children live in households that have...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...black first graders who lived within their zones. (Nothing was said about how rezoning would affect the black schools to which those children would have gone, or about whites moving...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...term suggested by folklorist Michael Owen Jones, who contributed the foreword to this book). Laurel Horton weaves the story of the family's lives, using information gleaned from oral interviews with...
Insistent Traces
Readings https://vimeo.com/134755182 Claudia Emerson reads the untitled opening from Pinion: An Elegy. View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134755765 Claudia Emerson reads the poem "Rent." View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134756419 Claudia Emerson...