Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...monthly payments can mean the difference between destitution and modest survival.4This estimate of the number of black lung beneficiaries is extrapolated from data on the number of claims filed each...
Mississippi Delta
...of cheap labor, on which Delta plantations depended. By 1910, tenants operated ninety-two percent of Delta farms, and ninety-five percent of those tenants were African American. New ethnic groups also...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...persistence." Hundreds of scientists have contributed to the development of WWF's Conservation Science Program and identified over 800 distinct terrestrial ecoregions across the globe.1Robert G. Bailey, Description of the Ecoregions...
Seneca Quarry
...was owned by Thomas Peter, the father of John P. C. Peter. He transferred the property to John around 1828, and John began building Montevideo, a Tudor Place in miniature...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...to the Quarter in the early 1920s such major American writers as Sherwood Anderson, William Faulkner, and John Dos Passos, even Edmund Wilson breezing through on a busman's holiday. John...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...University of Texas at Austin. Since coming to Mississippi in 1999, he has worked on a number of photographic projects, including "Local Legacies: the First Monday Sale and Trade Days...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...upon the violent expulsion of indigenous peoples. Left, John Ross, Philadelphia, ca. 1843. Lithograph by John T. Bowen, Thomas Loraine McKenney, and James Hall. Courtesy of the Popular Graphic Arts...
How I Shed My Skin
...unexamined habits take deep and early hold. About the Authors John Howard is professor of American Studies at King’s College London. He is the author of Concentration Camps on the Home...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...number of reported tornadoes in the state each year is twenty-five, with sixty-two the highest number reported in a single year, and five the fewest. The average number of tornado-related...