Good-Bye to All That?
...Depression generation dominated by grade school and high school graduates? And so a parasitic financial industry grows exponentially as it shuffles money from the middle class to the rich with...
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
...and Foodways from the Slave Narratives (Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood Press, 2009). Literary scholar David S. Shields discusses the appearance of roasted opossum on a hotel menu in "Possum in...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...a limited number of tunes. Singing schools emerged to teach lay-persons the basics of reading and performing music. These schools operated independently of any congregation or denomination and were run...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...with him, but soon resorted to sneaking out once a week to the local A&W Root Beer stand for a cheeseburger. I was searching for a literary scene, and I...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...caprice of church- and charter-funded schools. The victims of the murder cult are largely poor children culled from far-away Christian schools and women pried from hidden brothels. If the show...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...the stylized detachment of "cool" violence. This scene is overheated, but not overdone, torture, but not porn. If these two scenes were the only striking moments in 12 Years a...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
Review For more than twenty years, scholars have sought in article after book after conference paper to expand the timeline, reach, and definition of environmental concern and activism. This uncoordinated...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, "[g]eology reigned as the supreme science, the field of scientific inquiry that seemed most capable of yielding conclusions about the ultimate nature of the...
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...