Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, LC-USZ62-126846. Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, including Section 5, to put a stop to such deep-seated, malicious mischief....
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...are then are privatized for corporate profit and their ruin condition is used as a reason. The New York Times financial page has described the drive of corporations to secure...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...were in the Southern states—and eleven of those were in Texas and Virginia. Most of these 396 districts were located in California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio,...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...to portray all the heroic feminine characters of Shakespeare." (Boston Traveler, January 25, 1904). From her childhood in Savannah, through her drama studies in Boston and New York, Adrienne held...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), x. In the US South alone—those states defined as the least tolerant—a number of...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...1941. Numerous additional flood-control acts have authorized "corrective" works along the river and its tributaries, including new levees for containing flood flows and floodways for the swift passage of excess...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...vivid examples of the consequences of ignorance come from the history of diseases."1Peter Burke, Ignorance: A Global History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023), 189. COVID-19 is a current case...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...the new singings in the United States have viewed them as a revival of earlier, locally lapsed practices. This view ties contemporary Sacred Harp singings in New England, the mid-Atlantic,...
Cajun South Louisiana
...Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library Digital Collections.. The Acadians would play a crucial role in defining south Louisiana. The 3000 or...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...Faulkner, Big Woods: The Hunting Stories (Originally published in New York: Random House, 1955; New York: Vintage International, 1994), [166]. As more dependable levees for the protection of croplands and...