Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...in 1929 historian Ulrich B. Phillips started Life and Labor in the Old South with the comment: “Let us begin with the weather, for that has been the chief agency...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...1941. Numerous additional flood-control acts have authorized "corrective" works along the river and its tributaries, including new levees for containing flood flows and floodways for the swift passage of excess...
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
...1490s. With its explicit geographic focus, the volume consciously adopts David Armitage's popular genre of "Cis-Atlantic history," which explores "particular places as unique locations within an Atlantic world and seeks...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...the 1850s—who produced mostly popular works and "collections" on Alexander McGillivray and William McIntosh—with the sanitized reflections of Governors George Gilmer and Wilson Lumpkin. Each writer asserted his own "version...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...association with Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2017), 83–86, 86. Recovering this history acknowledges that people of color and the poor have shared the passion for wilderness and the natural world...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...wife to be put to death for spurning Alfred's sexual advances. After poisoning Alfred's wife, Georges beheads his master with an ax and then takes his own life upon discovering...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...ask for the death penalty? Because they knew that no white jury would send the defendants to their deaths. They argued the case with the very opposite of indifference, with...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...the liturgy experienced: a confrontation, a reckoning, with real people, with real histories, with real families whose descendants live among us. Until such encounters happen more widely, Americans will continue...