COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...hesitancy, racial inequities in distribution, and state and local disparities in healthcare funding and facilities, continued to impede vaccine delivery as first the Delta variant and then Omicron took their...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...love of fun and whimsy. The city's storied restaurants, several of them still in business, get proper billing; so do legendary recipes. Even the history it serves up is entertaining,...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...and still I could take flight, into love, lust, sisterhood, and all the discoveries I was making at that time.19Myriam Fougère, dir., Lesbiana: A Parallel Revolution (Women Make Movies, 2012)....
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...of Fermor's classic.10Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, "Introduction," in The Traveller's Tree: A Journey through the Caribbean Islands (New York: New York Review of Books, 1950, 2011), ix–x. The genealogical link is apparent....
Sonic Zora in Florida
...social upheaval with that Blind Lemon Jefferson blues classic. Hurston: This song I am going to sing is a lining rhythm, and I am going to call it "Mule on...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...and finally the "Jordan." While the first two names are borrowed from classical mythology, the Old Testament "Jordan" invokes slavery.22Spirituals such as "Go Down Moses" invoked the Jordan River to...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...years, working-class caregivers have faced a US political economy ever more hostile to their needs and concerns and increasingly demanding of their time and energy. Although overall poverty has decreased...
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Tom Rankin, Delta Winter, Bolivar County, Mississippi, 2010. Tom Rankin is stepping down as the director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University after fifteen years of service....
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: Dr. Crespino discusses and suggests the limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: Dr. Crespino traces the idea of Mississippi as...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...different walks of life consumed and disseminated knowledge from the burgeoning field of medical geography: the post-Enlightenment amalgamation of geography and the rediscovery of classical theories that insisted on the...