"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...in Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas, and extended to the Pacific, with some populations in California.13Audubon, Quadrupeds, 125. The opossum—which is remarkably fecund due to its short gestation period and...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...Indian-European relations. Beck is not concerned with the war itself as much as its effects on the political economy of Native polities in the Carolina Piedmont. The war virtually ended...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...chapters, as well as the introduction and conclusion, opens with a character sketch of a participant in the trade, providing immediacy, reinforcing the role of imagination in the creation of...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...private interest groups in an attempt to deny blacks physical access to the Pacific Beach Club, to condemn the property, and to convert the land into a public—i.e. white—beach. White...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...Rasmussen back in 1978 and he appreciated the work that I did in that era when I was active in not only helping miners but also advocating improvements in state...
"Aint that Something?"
...Gipe captures its looming presence in an illustration of the word in all capital letters; Dawn says, "It was the first time I ever heard the word." (302). Prescription pill...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
Big Ten football has received plenty of criticism in recent years, much of it well deserved. The conference clearly isn't what it used to be, and Marc Tracy recently identified...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...Owen Whitfield demanded that if the federal government offered relief in response to a disaster it created with dynamite, it should address the disaster caused by its legislation.10Wright, Old South,...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...is a movement that is unstoppable. Success is hard to measure. But I believe that water quality in the basin has improved steadily, incrementally, one part per million at a...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...sugarcane land, once a volatile but powerful economic life-force, is idle and in poor condition. Even with its admirable innovations in sustainable and organic farming, Cuba's domestic agricultural producers cannot...