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...
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
...listed as a slaveowner in the 1850 slave schedule in Washington. A white man identified in the 1850 slave schedule for the District of Columbia as "J. Clarke" (Ward 3,...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...closed schools, Warren County High School. As it turned out, the African American students arrived for classes only to find that no white students returned to the school. "In theory,...
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
Review I recently went to an opening-night screening in West Los Angeles of Richard Linklater's latest film, Boyhood. This was no red-carpet affair. There were no designer gowns, photographers, or...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...started a project called The Seeds of Hope Farmers' Market Project. When my questions began to deepen, I went back to school to study the effects of the loss of...
"Aint that Something?"
...she belongs. It's refreshing to read an Appalachian novel in which the protagonist is a smart and sharp-tongued young woman who doesn't mince words. Discussing other kids at school, Dawn...