The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...while working feverishly to change them into something else" (front cover flap). Outlining the enormous human-induced change along the Mississippi is a formidable task, but Klein and Zellmer unveil some...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...projects: "All around Appalachia there are photographers engaged in a dialogue to change and expand perception of the region, allowing folks to declare 'hey, I'm Appalachian too.'"5Lou Murrey, "Out of...
The Carolina Piedmont
...significant numbers. Enslaved African Americans made up ten percent of the Carolina Piedmont's population in the 1760s. By 1800, only two or three counties had black populations of more than...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...we, the Americans, we, the American people, are able to accept the fact . . . that on that continent we are trying to forge a new identity, that we...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...empire abolished slavery. It seemed to be an era of emancipation. Matthew Karp's This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy joins a chorus of scholarship...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...achieve the hygienic practices that kept middle-class and wealthy Anglo and Mexican American homes clean and free of disease was lost on these public health officials. Exposing Anglo Americans' privileges...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...the same. What changed were matters of strategy, tactics, and language as the ground of the struggle was reconstituted in the wake of white flight and segregation in housing across...
The Chesapeake Bay
...human systems and the close interaction between environmental shifts and human societal, economic, and even political change. The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States and its...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...of their garden. Letcher County, KY, 2005. Changes in housing structures: My photos of buildings are emblematic of the change that's occurred from the days when I regularly stumbled upon intact...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Atlanta's history, many changes enacted on the city's landscape for the two week event remain. The destruction of black Atlanta neighborhoods for Olympic sites changed the city's layout and racial...