Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...of personality are lost. Some individuals become pugnacious, while others fall into a state of reverie. After small doses there is a great tendency to causeless merriment. Although less certain...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
...in general and slavery in particular. Academic scholars can be of great assistance in this critical venture, helping to develop the historical context for public presentation as a step toward...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...private school vouchers, and higher-income families have received the majority of the vouchers since 2013. The actual number may be much greater as the program has been plagued by irregularities,...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials 1871–1872 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996); Nicholas Lemann, Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War (New York: Farrar, Straus and...
The Liminal Site
...vertical feet down from the ridgeline and about 250 feet above downtown.1We now live in North Vancouver, British Columbia, but—since we moved during the Great Recession—we were unable to sell...
The Border South
...great danger in the gamble of secession, but when Abraham Lincoln called for troops to stop the Lower South secession few were willing to countenance federal force in the South....
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...exert greater control over map production and circulation. A Times of India report describes the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs's proposed Geospatial Information Regulation Bill 2016 that "makes it mandatory...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...the twenty-dollar bill from Andrew Jackson. Jackson contributed greatly to the expansion and development of the United States, Inskeep noted, but this "nation-building" occurred with devastating costs for Native peoples,...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...earlier focus on natural history was especially great because the impact of climate and disease was so wrapped up with the very definition of the South as a distinct section...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise." Twenty years after his death in 1910, in the wake of the great flood of 1927,...