"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
... participant observation in the St. Francois Mountains (2002-2004), the Boston Mountains and Salem and Springfield Plateaus (2006 and 2009). This research is a component of an applied anthropology endeavor to...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...France, distinguishing himself as a dramatist. In "The Mulatto," his only short story, Séjour tapped into the subject of African bondage, possibly inspired by his father, Juan Francois Louis Séjour...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Valley musicians in the 78 RPM record era, largely because no major roads connected the Lower Chattahoochee to Atlanta, the closest recording hub. And in the early 1960s, when blues...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...use of spaciality as an analytical framework is less effective. His chapter on the Savannah River, for example, seems unnecessarily encumbered by frequent assertions of space creation by the English,...
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...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...1850 and 1860 provide population statistics by nation of origin, providing the total number of German-born in each state. Compiled from the Original Returns of the Eighth U.S. Census 1860a-04,...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...weaving an archaeological and material analysis with sociological theory into a carefully crafted historical narrative. Catawba deerskin map given to colonial govenor Francis Nicholson in 1721. Photograph of original map...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...at the crossroads of the railroad and U.S. 11, just off the highway, a place where the growing number of mexicano workers can send envios of money home. I grew...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...A Review by Gwen Ottinger Pipeline and River Road, Donaldsonville, Louisiana, 2010. Photograph by Richard Misrach. Courtesy of Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York; Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; and Marc Selwyn Gallery,...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...no reliable data on the number of children with special needs enrolled in private schools. A small number were established to serve special needs students, but the vast majority do...