New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...nature preservation. This builds on important recent work in nineteenth-century environmental history, such as Catherine McNeur's Taming Manhattan and Carl Zimring's Clean and White, and buttresses the argument for long...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...troubling as that holding is, the opinion also constitutes a major, often ignored long-term impact on school desegregation. Today most students attending private schools are in religious schools, and most...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...along the Gulf of Mexico and a greater naval presence in the South. The navy was central to the international perspective of slaveholders—to defend against British-led abolitionist incursions and to...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...to his commissioned portrait revealed the longstanding differences in slavery's public memory. A war of words ensued after the painting's dedication in September 1976, and the artwork was stolen, recovered,...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...in Washington, DC, Mildred and Richard decide, in violation of state law, to move back to Virginia with their three young children. They find a farmhouse. It has no telephone...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...hop production company, Organized Noize, at the heart of this week-long arts celebration: "Organized Noize Productions and the Dungeon Family collective become highly visible examples of the ways [in which]...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...and "why?" Instead, they were "what is going to happen?" and "how long will it take?" With those questions in mind, I began to think about photographing along the Mississippi...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...a predominantly British vision of orderly settlements on the land of colonial Georgia, an imagined place that implied the English longing for control of lands and economies. The empire is...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
Review In 2001, lifelong Anniston, Alabama, resident Ruth Mims was called to testify in a lawsuit against the multinational corporation Monsanto. Monsanto had owned and operated a chemical manufacturing facility...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...numbers of people who survived the acute phase of their infections are affected by long-term sequelae. Perhaps we now know better the enormity and implications of what was missing in...