The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...Mississippi drainage basin. Flooding, of course, has always posed a physical threat to human subsistence in the lower-lying parts of the immense watershed that drains some 40 percent of the...
The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
...instituted a voucher system that would give parents the choice to use money the state had allocated to pay for their child's public education to pay private school tuition. Tuesday,...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...1996. Regarding the park renovations and the statue, Peel continued, "I have devoted heart and soul to JHP [John Howell Park] this last year and a half. We will complete...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...contributions, including those of Vidal, Sophie White, Mary Williams, and Emily Clark, elaborate on the many ways in which a "repressive legal and judiciary system" (15) drew upon past ideas...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...rice planters for a slave-based plantation economy. Jennison unpacks Georgia's slave codes from 1755, 1765, and 1770 to demonstrate how a Savannah-based, Lowcountry elite eventually seized power. Jennison cautions, however,...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...in Environmental Policy and NEPA: Past, Present, and Future, eds. Ray Clark and Larry W. Canter (Boca Raton, FL: St. Lucie Press, 1997), 25–50, 37. Postscript NEPA's longstanding requirements for...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...of slavery. One example is found in William Wells Brown's novel Clotel; or, the President's Daughter (1853). In Clotel, the authorial narrator bitterly protests the separation of members of a...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...and landscape architect based in San Antonio, Texas, partnered with Eatonville to generate community development guidelines drawing inspiration from Hurston's literary descriptions of the community's character. Furthermore, Fly partnered with...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...the firmness of her tone. "Their pain was unparalleled," she observed. "Their pain is still here. It burns in the soul of every person of African descent in the United...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...J. Hooker (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1953), 133–134. Daniel W. Patterson (photographer), The Reverend William Richardson headstone (1771), Waxhaw Presbyterian Church, Lancaster County, South Carolina. Gravestone attributed...