New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...by the federal government. These are important not only to provide background and context, but also because the often-contested terrain of scientific knowledge and expertise is so central to understanding...
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...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...codes of conduct—likely resulting in civil litigation. In Mississippi, second-class citizenship remains under the aegis of special "religious liberty" measures for a bigoted few. HB 1523 is an attack on...
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...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...game on display inside and outside the house, exude a contemporary animist faith of sorts. In the demanding and sometimes cruel code of honor that even the most “outlaw” members...
The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
...in 2003, they remain in the Virginia Code. A federal appeals court specifically struck down this statute this March in the course of a case where an adult male solicited...
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...Goodwin's papers in the Emory University Archives illumine his, and the Emory University Field Station's, centrality to the early project of disease control in America and cast light on the...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...European dependence on Indian slaves provided by the Westos and Occaneechis, resulting in increased importation of African slaves. This shift from Indian to African labor also reduced the violence and...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...over-representation of African American communities, creole New Orleans, and Appalachia. This "amalgamation of fringe spaces" contained, in Hardwig's words, "many pockets of life that seemed exceptionally foreign to the national...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...called for his assistance to troubleshoot guide work in nearby states where bottlenecks were choking off progress. The central office brought him to DC to work on the national desk....