"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...Orleans, but circa 2017, very few people in the general public had heard of the fire.51Ryan Prechter, "Gay New Orleans: A History." Googling for tickets, I saw our future. We...
"No Deadline Short of the Grave": The Photographs of Paul Kwilecki
...Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (University Press of Mississippi, 1993), Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre: Photographs of a River Life (University Press of Mississippi, 1995), and Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible...
Southern Spaces on Hurricane Katrina
...Spaces, January 17, 2012, https://southernspaces.org/2012/unhappy-trails-big-easy-public-spaces-and-square-called-congo. Trethewey, Natasha. "Geography." Southern Spaces, January 11, 2011, https://southernspaces.org/2011/geography. Saikku, Mikko. "Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta." Southern Spaces, January 28, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/bioregional-approach-southern-history-yazoo-mississippi-delta....
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...to take, returning the rest to forage through the delta mud. The numbers in the coolers spoke: they were falling, 300 pounds, 225, 175. Every year they fell—he remembers 1,500...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...conspicuously restaurant owner Charles Lebedin whose belligerent refusal to integrate his businesses generated angry protests from black activists in the early 1960s.9Paul Good, The Trouble I've Seen: White Journalist/Black Movement...
Cajun South Louisiana
...the Canary Islands, and such Native American tribes as the Houma, Bayou Goula, and Choctaw. A big aligator, about 800 lbs. Photograph by ST Blessing. Courtesy of The Miriam and...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...committees, has been largely overlooked by historians. The class action suit, Strain v. Philpott, that defeated the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service's discriminatory policies has been relegated to a footnote. Welchel...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...have visualized the extent of the various laws that cover petrochemical operations, showing the overlaps and gaps amid which companies do business. Including the human dimensions of the systems Petrochemical...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...rail against Catholics, immigrants, and Demon Rum. Indeed, Catts shocked the Democratic establishment, winning the 1916 election on the Prohibition ticket. Had Charlie Crist succeeded in his bid for the...
Deep Ellum Blues
...tradition has remained the bluesiest of the regional variations of country music, including the honky tonk classics of Ernest Tubb and Hank Thompson. Another version of a blues/country synthesis returned...