Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...extensive and informative chapters. Cholera, in contrast, receives no such spotlight, since it “did not arrive in the region until very late in the story, in the 1830s, and did...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...it raises, Mississippi River Tragedies makes a convincing case for the importance of including law in the historical study of environmental change. Accessibly written, this book is an entertaining introduction...
The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. Brood II, a billions-strong legion of cicadas, is expected to emerge later this summer and overrun the East Coast from North Carolina...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...of the "Building a Movement in the Southeast: LGBT Collections in MARBL" multimedia exhibit that includes stories and displays artifacts from the LGBT movement, including the AIDS crisis, in Atlanta....
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...while Mississippi, most intolerant, is far from fabulous; it is, Slattery writes, a "failed" state. According to both Silver and Stephens-Davidowitz, Mississippi has failed the tolerance test; it is the...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...satisfactory description of Jim Crow, it is difficult to assess the efforts of activists to dismantle it. Second, while Behnken provides compelling insights into the strange career of whiteness in...
The Black Belt
...photographs from 1914 US Geological Survey “Cretaceous Deposits of the Eastern Gulf Region,” Selma, Alabama, ca. 1914. Image uploaded by Flickr user Internet Archive Book Images. Image is in the...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...1935 to 747 in 1941. Nonetheless, the South continued to lead the nation in the number of stillbirths and maternity and infant death rates, as well as in the incidence...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...in the present crisis? In addition to studying health justice and equity in the United States, I have researched health policy development in Brazil. Segments of the Brazilian Black Movement...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...Indianapolis automotive headlights manufacturer Carl Fisher, who had plowed his fortune into the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and later into promoting long-distance roads, including the earlier Lincoln Highway. The Dixie Highway—one...