The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...people required to operate the port declined sharply. Meanwhile, more valuable cargoes went increasingly to other cities with better rail infrastructure. As geographer Richard Campanella observes, "great ports no longer...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...of the Great Society," Osburn concludes, Choctaws "finally resolved the myriad dilemmas created by BIA paternalism" (150). That is, they were able to leverage one federal agency against another and...
Palomares Bajo
...from these twenty-nine entries evidence the great attention paid to the underwater search, reflected in subsequent news coverage. The best of the limited sources on ground operations seem to be...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...the Southern Regional Council, the Georgia Council of Human Relations, and the Greater Atlanta Council on Human Relations. An eloquent critic of racial segregation, he had attracted national attention for...
Mapping Souths
.... In examining, then, the conflicting characters of two great sections, it is no unfavorable introduction to such an investigation, to discover that nature herself has drawn deeply the sectional...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...can't bear to look at and think about for more than the length of a television news report or tweet, yet we continue to seek out the next great scare...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...that she calls "l'homme-plante" (human-plant), an agency that resists forces of slavery and colonial discourse by its vegetative and receptive attitude.3Suzanne Césaire, The Great Camouflage: Writings of Dissent (1941–1945), trans....
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...theories," reject tradition, and look to the future. "We are most like Jefferson," she explained, "not when we repeat parrot-like the principles he enunciated, but when we apply these great...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...the last thirty years," she began. "He is an individual who has fought for freedom at great personal sacrifice, who has bettered the lives of tens of thousands of American...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...the Ohio. Inevitably, one of the primary commodities transported along the river were slaves themselves. As a slave-trading highway, the Ohio brought greater visibility to the more odious elements of...