The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...But, no educational policy at any level today acknowledges America's large population of children in extreme poverty and the extraordinary challenges they face in education. It is time for a...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...proved too poor to broadcast. The next year, they tried again. In The Soul of a Man, Ronnog Seaberg holds up the 1965 reel. "This is it," she says. Ronnog...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...Elias) or she might have been Eliza, daughter to Charlotte, no age given, residing in the Mount Vernon Mansion House. She was the sister of Elvey and Jenny. In any...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...up arms against the United States and by their own reckoning gave up US citizenship to become part of a rebel nation. These same white southerners are US citizens today only...
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...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...translations of stories, innovative interviews of Creek elders by other Creek elders in the Creek language, videos of Creek Christians singing hymns in Creek, and much more. While all of...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...of the drowned while teasing out the links between environmental degradation, those thrown overboard during the Middle Passage, and the migrants who drown while crossing the Mediterranean today. From these...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...39–58; John Michael Vlach, The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts (Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978). Bottles, shells, pottery and other elements are held to ward off mystical dangers and...
The Liminal Site
...Nashville Railroad, which carried iron ore from the mines that still angle down into the narrow seam of ore-bearing sandstone that runs along the ridge. Today, it's a footpath that...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...feminism unnecessary, and gay sexuality nonexistent. None of that was true, of course, but white, middle-class kids often skated over the consequences. On some vague level, we sensed that we...