Nearly exhausted sulphur vat from which railroad cars are loaded, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas, 1943
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
...The Fire Ever Burning (2000, with Aaron Henry); Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement (2000); Captive Lives (2000); a special issue of the journal Southern...
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: Dr. Crespino discusses and suggests the limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: Dr. Crespino traces the idea of Mississippi as...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...the babies in the line waiting for vaccines, they camp overnight at the clinic to get a vaccine . . . even the anti-vaccination Brazilians vaccinate in secret."7Kiratiana Freelon, "Opinion:...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...today's Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida—were central to early American knowledge production. At first glance the image appears to be a familiar allegory of Europe's conquest of the Americas. It...
And the Prize Goes to...
...seminar, “How to Study the South Today,” this exercise serves as the final step in a conversation about the scholarly tools needed to conduct intersectional research and produce multi-modal work....
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...that house open-pollinated varieties rather than hybrids has fallen drastically over the last quarter century; I estimate that less than one quarter of Ozark gardens today can be characterized as...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...class struggle—and I could not. Because from the beginning of my graduate school education until today—that is, for the last 35 years— the majority of my teaching jobs have been...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...Reprint from the Lindesmith Center (New York: Lindesmith Center, 1999), 43–44. The drug was marijuana.2Though usually spelled "marijuana" today, "marihuana" was the most common spelling in the United States during...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...Texas Revolution: the conflict from which the phrase "Remember the Alamo!" comes.3The actions of those fallen at the Alamo were glorified in Texas history and culture, and today, the Alamo...