The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...continental United States. From their arrival on the banks of North America's greatest river and its tributaries, European and American settlers realized that economic development in the flood-prone region would...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...replacement with white settlers (and, in the South, their black slaves). The United States could secure freedom and economic opportunity for its white citizens only by expelling indigenous communities. That...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...Congress Geography and Map Division, 2004626926. Henry Popple, A map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto, 1733. Library of Congress Geography and...
Writing Appalachia
...seek is scattered to the four quarters of the internet.1Websites for locating Appalachian writing include Documenting the American South (docsouth.unc.edu) and Making of America (quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/). Additionally, many specialized anthologies of...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...in Twentieth-Century America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007). The fact that these public Confederate monuments still dominate southern spaces, and that their removals provoke intense debate and outcry, suggests...
On Fair Use
...higher education. The United States Copyright Office outlines its "fair use" policy in Section 107 of Title 17 of the United States Code, enumerating "various purposes for which the reproduction...
Race
...look from an ivory spouse who is learning her husband's caesuras. She can see silent spaces but not what they signify, graphite markings in a forester's code. Many others have...
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2005. From Dorothy Moye's Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition. 400-600 word proposals should include: a description of the major ideas, arguments, and sources for the...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...May 31, 1955, p. 6. Crossroads to Freedom Digital Archive, Rhodes College. The few attempts by states to provide equivalent facilities for blacks generated white anger and hostility. When the...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...is an indigenous Haitian religion, closely related to West African Vodun, that draws from multiple West African religions, in addition to Roman Catholicism, European mysticism, and freemasonery. Most practitioners of...