The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...of riverside interests had to lobby hard in order to gain legal justification and congressional support for flood control. Mississippi River Flood of 1927 showing Flooded Areas and Field of...
The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
...Brood II will tunnel underground and remain there for the next seventeen years. Then, Brood II will rise again. Last year, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal and the Louisiana State Legislature...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
..."I fear it may be difficult to come up with another project which will be so full of meaning for me," gay rights activist Dr. Jesse Peel wrote in his...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...known map of the Mississippi River, by Father Jacques Marquette, but credited to Melchisédec Thévenot. The engraver was likely Jean Baptiste Liébaux. Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library at...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...black, or trifurcated white–black–red, did not emerge as definitively or as early as previous scholars (chiefly Edmund S. Morgan) have suggested. It was the rising Cotton Kingdom's market forces—after Native American removal—that...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...on native fishing rights. Inspired by civil rights sit-ins and organized by the Survival of the American Indian Society, these protests at Frank's Landing in Puget Sound sought to prevent...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
.... before your eyes . . . right in front of you . . . do you understand, master; right in front of you, asking you for water, for air,...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...in Money, Mississippi, in August 1955 and was lynched for it—catalyzed men and women into an irresistible movement for change. He's right; so many people roughly of Till's age when...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...River, the land was dubbed Freedom Hill. Twenty years later, a Black community elder named Turner Prince purchased the land, and it was renamed Princeville, the first incorporated Black town...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...to develop a morally strong case for making profits out of right motives." See Murphy, Jesuit Slaveholding in Maryland, 1717–1838 (New York: Routledge, 2001), 72. But America's founding, like Georgetown...