COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...311–328. The largest public health cataclysm in a hundred years has put to the test assumptions, capacities, decisions, practices, and policies. In many ways, the United States has been found wanting,...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...catastrophe by any standard. Some 1,800 persons were killed outright. More than a million people were forced to relocate, many for the remainder of their lives. A city of 500,000...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...American West (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011); Jon Hunner, Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004); Paul Loeb, Nuclear Culture: Living...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...in modern-day Mississippi. Along the way, they faced the nearly impossible challenges of pleasing segregationist whites, asserting their own distinctiveness, and keeping black Mississippians at a distance. The 1827 Anthony...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
The US Supreme Court has chosen to hear several cases this term that could overturn many of the laws and practices the nation has come to accept as instrumental for...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...Artisan Project of Port-de-Paix, Haiti, sister diocese to the Archdiocese of Miami. Notre Dame d'Haiti Cathedral, Miami, Florida, February 1, 2014. Photo by Monica Lauzurique. Courtesy of the Archdiocese of...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...done up to this point: show us real aging, real maturation.4Obviously, many films have sequels (and prequels), but most aren't purposefully playing with the (dis)continuity of time the way Linklater's...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...Double Oaks neighborhood, an area facing many of the problems plaguing other inner-city communities. Crime, unemployment, substandard housing, and drugs wreaked havoc on many of its residents. Drifting further away...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...Harmony Singings). Some Sacred Harp singers will include a song or two from the Christian Harmony at their own singings. Christian Harmony is one of several seven-shape books that remain...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...territory or adopting a new state, which had to be declared "free" or "slave." Calhoun held that any state had the sovereign power to nullify any law that the federal...