Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...persistence." Hundreds of scientists have contributed to the development of WWF's Conservation Science Program and identified over 800 distinct terrestrial ecoregions across the globe.1Robert G. Bailey, Description of the Ecoregions...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...visual display of white power, delineating the rightful place of Blacks not as consumers of opossum, but as providers, cooks, and servers of it. While Newnan's political opossum suppers were...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...number of reported tornadoes in the state each year is twenty-five, with sixty-two the highest number reported in a single year, and five the fewest. The average number of tornado-related...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...a number of Thomas and Martha Peter's slaves were transferred to John Parke Custis Peter well before Thomas' death. A year after Thomas died, an 1835 petition seeks to recover...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...for "public interest" programming at license renewal, national networks and local affiliates began to take their news organizations more seriously.59MacDonald, Blacks and White TV, 90-2. Programs included for example, "Clinton...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...monthly payments can mean the difference between destitution and modest survival.4This estimate of the number of black lung beneficiaries is extrapolated from data on the number of claims filed each...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...the 1870s , and the color scheme and arrangement of Mary's quilt are typical of the region and the era. It is constructed of twenty identical blocks of a very...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...fare and indie flicks) is known informally as the Before Trilogy (Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight). Beginning in 1995 and released nine years apart, these films focus on Céline...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...the old folks in the community were still working together and how little of that there was left. I realized that many of men who were working on my farm...
"Aint that Something?"
...of the region that still endure; think of the toothless, bearded hillbilly with a jug of moonshine, or simple folks carving wood or making quilts. A hundred years later, James...