Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...of a number of "marked trails" of this era—would join existing local roads into a long-distance highway linking north and south. Not coincidentally, it would connect the metropolitan North with...
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The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...latest technology: Princess phones played recorded messages and elaborate electric maps traced troop movements. A Mercury space capsule proudly perched nearby, an incongruous and yet resonant symbol of the unified...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...lawyers appeared before the US Supreme Court to argue that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is no longer constitutional. By the end of June, the Court is...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...family owned farms by large-scale agribusiness effectively ended sharecropping and farm tenancy. No longer needed in the cotton fields and no longer wanting to work in them, generations of black...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...during Mardi Gras 2011. For the first time in a very long time, the Mississippi River created a new distributary on its own. It breached a levee, and about two thousand cubic feet...
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...Go Bullfrog Blues Captain Had a Bulldog Catfish Blues Crawling King Snake Five Long Years Frolicking Blues Going Down South Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Good Love Blues Hoochie...
Hill Brothers Long Log Harvesting
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Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...long career, she never "took her hand off the plow" of social justice, and once her course was set, she did not look back. Interviews with a number of activists...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
...the future—for my womanhood, my motherhood, and for the chosen family I will assemble underneath this roof. LGBTQ people have long known that our stories are not to be found...