The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...of riverside interests had to lobby hard in order to gain legal justification and congressional support for flood control. Mississippi River Flood of 1927 showing Flooded Areas and Field of...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...count on one hand the number of writers given high administrative responsibility. Saxon was one of them, and maybe the most highly regarded of the lot. On several occasions Washington...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...and most robust digital humanities centers with the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) and the Virginia Center for Digital History. It just happened that my advisor was...
Our Backward Revolution
...demands of labor unions, civil rights activists, feminists, the disabled, and others who struggle for social justice. The New Right was also able to draw upon a deeply rooted anti-government/“dog-eat-dog”/“everyone...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...of freedom, in which his white friend and former employer at the post office, Lambert Tree, swore in front of a justice of the peace that Brown had always been...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...their just due, but an irretrievable wrong will be inflicted upon the generations that should come after us.1Victoria Earle Matthews, "The Value of Race Literature," in The New Negro: Readings on...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...life, Pratt exemplifies the standards which this lecture series is designed to encourage. She understands that social justice does not come simply through a change in 'attitudes'; real social justice...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...can do better than that. They can make their representatives justify the trust placed in them. They can demand more of their government. They can assert a right to land...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...2011. Just a three hour drive from Havana, Viñales is a popular tourist destination for foreigners who want to experience the Cuban countryside. Although it is a protected "natural" area,...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening. Three AM and the Stars Were Out When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another...