Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...of Remembering (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997); Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed, If Memory Serves: Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota...
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...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...and keep their gains.5On corporate subsidies, Niraj Chokshi, "The United States of Subsidies," Washington Post, March 18, 2015, www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/03/17/the-united-states-of-subsidies-the-biggest-corporate-winners-in-each-state/?utm_term​=.314361798972. Top, View of Arthurdale project, Reedsville, West Virginia, 1935. Photograph by...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...see: Anita Snow, Associated Press, "Living on Cuban Food Ration isn't Easy," Washington Post, July 2, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/02/AR2007070201103.html. Also, see footnote 11. However, household food insecurity is also on the...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Preaching on Wax: The Phonograph and the Shaping of Modern African American...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...engineers into Louisiana plants from corporate offices, out to central research and development facilities, off to California refineries, back again to take the helm of a plant somewhere else along...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...Orleans is frequently rendered as exceptional in the US through two intertwined narratives.6Such exceptionalist renderings go as far back to the writings of George Washington Cable and Lafcadio Hearn and...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...different light. Mark M. Smith is the doyen of sensory history in the US. In Sensing the Past: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Touching in History (Oakland: University of California...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...2011–2012 and 2012–2013. Even as GOP lawmakers found the funds to create a voucher system for private schools, they reduced the number of openings in the state's highly successful pre-K...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...the Spartanburg Herald on May 19, 1875, offered "Singer's celebrated sewing machines, the cheapest and the best sewing machine, for sale on easy terms." In the same issue, McK. Johnstone...