Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...our bones but as a space that we can enter into, encounter, move around in, inhabit, be safe in, learn from." Kun, Audiotopia, 2. "If my own feelings are constantly...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...Alabama Cooperative Extension Service's integration plan. Judge Frank M. Johnson's September 1971 decree not only illuminated the degree of discrimination throughout Alabama's extension service, but also prescribed remedies to correct...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...city's users.11Between May 1923 and December 1929, the Times-Picayune published at least three hundred stories with references to marijuana, roughly one per week. The number of articles mentioning marijuana more...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...to Montgomery, Alabama, to join in the March to Selma. Upon learning of Mary's flight, Sibley called Martin Luther King and asked him the personal favor of having one of...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...Mississippi, Illinois, and Missouri Rivers (3). As she demonstrates in discussing the Commerce Map—a rock drawing (located about 150 miles south of present-day St. Louis) that is the oldest known...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...Composed Exclusively For the Under Ground Rail Road (1854), written for abolitionists ferrying enslaved people to freedom. The Emancipation Car includes forty-three poems, all meant to be sung to then-popular...
The Bulletin—June 12, 2012
...faculty, and librarians at a THATCamp AHA session in January. On May 24, the University of Missouri announced that it would begin phasing out its press, the University of Missouri Press,...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...coast, were formally excluded from the beach after the Army Corps of Engineers cleared the mangroves and laid down the miles-long strip of white sand along the Mississippi Gulf Coast....
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...do serious damage. The tally I got when asked was around twenty-five trips down there in the eight years that I worked on the project. I was doing landscape photography....
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...visits to experimental sites and meetings with some of Cuba's foremost agricultural innovators. Most memorably, during our two week trip we got to know some farmers and gardeners. I came...