New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...rosy story is important because a strong, inclusive and self-reflective, environmental movement is more important now than ever. Writing movement history is always political, especially when the social movements remain...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...in quilts prior to the era. Chrome orange, a mineral dye, was frequently used as an accent in red and green quilts in the mid-nineteenth century. Construction: Mary's quilt is...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...partner in the movie is, fittingly, one of her own former students, a vet of the War on Terror who is ill-equipped to deal with Olivia's defiant children, in spite...
Mississippi Delta
...in the eastern floodplain of the lower Mississippi River. It is sixty miles at its widest point from the Yazoo to the Mississippi, in what poet William Alexander Percy called "a badly...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...legal presumptions, and other issues, this conflict over the definition and causation of black lung is intensely political: it involves the ideological content of medicine's view of disease, including the...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...Imam Hussein Obama. . . . Imam Barack Hoover Obama is the correct nomenclature." However, says Limbaugh, the number of Americans who believe he is Muslim is increasing: "Imam Obama...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...conservationists were also eugenicists. White supremacy and nativism—hostility toward immigrants—were integral to the way many early conservationists understood their work. These ideas infused (and continue to infuse) debates about overpopulation,...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...Freedom Struggle is the latest installment in the growing shelf of books about the Till murder and its aftermath. (Truth in reviewing: I'm at work on a book about Till...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...suppress slave rebellions on a federal scale. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in public domain. In 1789, many US citizens gloried in the spread of the ideals of the...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...has a photograph of a rubbing of the same stone. It leans against a tree and is partly illuminated by sunlight. Text carved in relief is nearly invisible in this...