Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...activists. Others, as exemplified in Lynching Beyond Dixie, have researched lynching outside the South. Historians of the West have long studied vigilantism, but new scholarship on lynching draws connections between...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...as much on quick regrowth, harvest, and processing of timber as were the lumber and paper companies. Aesthetic and environmental values are important management objectives for some of these newer...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...than practical. Rosa's new husband could certainly afford to provide the household goods the couple needed. In many communities, however, it was traditional for the bride's family to supply the...
"Aint that Something?"
...a misfit: "Willet stood in front of me, breathing through his mouth, and I wanted to squeeze his big soft head. The feeling was new and strange" (258). "A hole...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...visual images of New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast — some of them genuinely heart-rending, others gratuitously spectacular — were circulated worldwide via television broadcasts, newspaper and magazine articles,...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...that “contributed to ‘breaking the bonds of custom, offering new experiences, calling out new institutions and activities’” (11, quoting Turner, 1920). The backdrop to The Sacred Harp’s emergence is not...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...happened at Mr. S's house. I grabbed my little brother's hand as my older sister grabbed mine and we headed out. When my mother got home that evening, I knew...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...York: Vintage Books, 2005); Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986); Richard G. Hewlett and Oscar E. Anderson, The New World, 1939–1946: A...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...J. Hotez, "Tropical Diseases: The New Plague of Poverty," New York Times, Saturday Review, August 19, 2012. Hushpuppy steers through her world in underpants, wearing white plastic boots covered in mud, her...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...struggle to resettle, build new homes, plant new gardens, and learn about new weather patterns. It demanded a reimagination of who the Cherokee were, how they connected to the world,...