Good-Bye to All That?
...happened. In a precinct where registered Democrats made up 37 percent, Republicans 30 percent, and "unaffiliated" 33 percent, the incumbent Democratic US senator Kay Hagan earned 38 percent of the...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...& Photographs Division, Popular Graphic Arts Collection, LC-DIG-pga-01657. Horticultural hall, Audubon Park, New Orleans, between 1890 and 1901. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection, LC-D4-5742....
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...meant was getting your hands dirty setting type, then cleaning your hands up for the printing. My first major publication was a letter-pressed pamphlet of a poem called Thin Creek,...
Cajun South Louisiana
...of Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC. Acadian descendants at first kept their distance from politics, but Andrew Jackson's Democratic party stirred...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
Video and Essay https://player.vimeo.com/video/269927353?byline=0&portrait=0 Ryan Gainey with cut flowers, Decatur, Georgia, ca. 1993. Photograph by David Schilling. Ryan Gainey (1944–2016) grew up in the Sandhills of South Carolina in the...
Forgotten Locavores: Letters and Literature of Market Bulletins
Presentation Part 2: Engelhardt’s discussion of state market bulletins’ history, content, readership, circulation, and archival importance Part 3: Engelhardt overviews the correspondence among bulletin readers and Lawrence Part 4: Engelhardt asks questions such...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...Garner, 1867. Painting by Thomas Noble. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-84545. It was this reality posited by Salifia that also explains why, as the...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...places of return or retreat, places that hold personal memories, aesthetic appeal, or the promise of renewed connection with the land. Four of the photographers grew up in the Delta...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...Richard Benning. Courtesy of Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, G4014.N5 1761 .P53. A prolific, award-winning author and commentator on New Orleans's historical geography, Campanella has...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...Republican. Wuthnow chronicles such seeming contradictions throughout 480-plus pages, over a hundred pages of notes, and an exhaustive bibliography. While Rough Country will remind many readers of Wuthnow's recent writings...