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
...Peter, late of Montgomery Co, decd. Negro man Sandy over 50 years [valued at] $175 Negro man Dave over 50 years $200 Negro man George (?) over 50, $225 Negro...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...familiar with and sympathetic to miners and their health has validated this broader definition. See, for example, Edward L. Petsonk, Cecile Rose, and Robert Cohen, "Coal Mine Dust Lung Disease:...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...the appliquéd motifs and added further rows to echo the contours of the larger pieces. The background is quilted in "hanging diamonds," that is, rows of horizontal lines crossed with...
"Aint that Something?"
...© Robert Gipe, 2015. Originally published in Trampoline (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015), 111. This material is used by permission of Ohio University Press, www.ohioswallow.com. Gipe doesn't paint a romanticized...
Mississippi Delta
Essay Mississippi Delta region. Map by Stacey Martin, 2006. Sociologist Rupert Vance wrote in the 1930s of the "cotton obsessed, Negro obsessed" Mississippi Delta as "the deepest South." A half...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...from larger rock, soul, blues, and punk canons. On their early records, they sounded more like the Rolling Stones—Sticky Fingers in particular—than the Charlie Daniels Band, more like Bruce Springsteen—they...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...and 1980s. Although the title of the book promises an emphasis on the post-World War II era, the first chapter is a robust examination of "Antecedents" to the modern movement....
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...of Roger W. Brucker's 2009 Grand, Gloomy and Peculiar—as a forgotten romantic hero of the nineteenth century, a figure of Black accomplishment and self-determination who overcame the dehumanization of slavery....
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...a dirt road through a cane field, terminating in a ditch.2Richard Misrach and Kate Orff, Petrochemical America (New York: Aperture Foundation, 2012), Plate 20, page 50. Patrick Clair, the director...