Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...number of such case studies have been done, then to look for patterns." Bioregional history is, therefore, the story of different but successive cultures occupying the same space.2Dan Flores, "Place:...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...questions we must ask ourselves: in fifty one years, to the day, what has changed at the University of Mississippi? And more importantly, what has changed in how we, as...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...car in the Quarter. Cell phones came out, some calling 911, others telling what happened. Word of mouth was that Joe the bar owner had shot the man for selling...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...The excerpts document experiences and events that occurred during the 1950s and 1960s, decades of significant social and cultural change nationally. The economic, political, and social landscape of Atlanta transformed...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...an exchange with the US Solicitor General, who sided with Alabama's Black plaintiffs, Alito proffered a couple of far-reaching, deeply flawed notions about voting. If adopted by the Court, they...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...around you has put support and interest into the project. Changes and Challenges How has digital humanities changed over the years that you've been involved? Scott Nesbit: The most striking...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...continue beyond the first half of 2010. From June 2009 through March 2010, the number of jobless workers continued to grow in the South and the West. The number of...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...were living in a changed and changing world, yet the adults around us seemed to be in denial, clinging to old ideas about life and work and community. The most...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...the book that they wish to help bring about change; specifically, to "participate in new thinking about how we can best divest ourselves of our addiction to petrochemicals, and to...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...larger changes in southeastern Native polities between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Beck's work complicates James Merrell’s monumental 1989 text on Catawba history, The Indians' New World.1James H. Merrell, The...