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A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies

...Mississippi Valley Division, "Mississippi River and Tributaries Project," http://www.mvd.usace.army.mil/About/MississippiRiverCommission%28MRC%29/MississippiRiverTributariesProject%28MRT%29.aspx. Many disagree and argue that by altering the natural hydrological regime and boosting development on the flood-prone areas, federal flood control...

The Bulletin—May 8, 2013

...May 7, 2013, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that using this money outside the public school system is unconstitutional. Louisiana Justices also noted that the funding mechanism for the voucher...

Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom

...Chippewa Square, Savannah, Georgia, May 22, 2014. Photograph by Flickr user BEV Norton. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.  Bottom, Detail of General Oglethorpe Statue, Savannah, Georgia, February 12, 2010. Photograph...

Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment

...July 28, 2012, 12 Noon  First African Baptist Church, 130 Tyler Street, Monroe, GA 30655 (at Highway 11, Across from Church’s Chicken) Schedule 12 Noon - Church opens for meditation...

Love and Death at Second-Line

...the day grown weary with sad joy wound down. Then above the din came the sounds of a scuffle followed by a single explosion, silence and then screams. My wife...

The Liminal Site

...non-native species mentioned above—mercifully minus kudzu but plus mimosa. Our discovery that the fence even had a gate was the result of an almost archaeological investigation. Unlike my midwestern in-laws,...