"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...and humanities polymath: a mash-up of John Cassavetes, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Will Oldham, Bret Easton Ellis, and Harold Bloom. As I write this, Franco is likely entering another field, and not...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...dominance more evident than at the highest levels of the nation's foreign policy and military apparatus. Karp goes beyond the numerical majority of men like John C. Calhoun, James K....
Public Health in the US and Global South
...taken up hookworm and pellagra as challenges. Funding for health reform began to increase after World War I. New Deal spending doubled the number of county health departments, from 396 in...
The Bulletin—March 20, 2013
...which did not clarify whether "one person one vote" requires districts to be measured by number of people or by number of eligible voters. A recent New York Times article...
Failed Memory Exercise
...a block of stores Like a test for names, beginning with the P.O., By which, in late autumn, the loaded wagons came, The colts wheeling behind the great sober mares,...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...session of Camp Fasola Europe, held near Gdansk in northern Poland; and the first Poland Sacred Harp Convention, held in Warsaw. Like the Ireland Convention, these events exceeded organizers' expectations...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...New Orleans artists and personalities like Kenneth "DJ Chicken" Williams Jr. and Wayne "Wild Wayne" Benjamin started internet-based radio and mixtape projects geared toward those trying to find and/or reconnect...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...showing the locations of Brownsville, Laredo, and Eagle Pass, 1882. Courtesy of Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, catalog number 98688791. Fevered Measures surveys smallpox and yellow fever epidemics...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...that the Court's conservative majority is likely poised to follow the lead of Associate Justice Samuel Alito, who in July 2021 wrote the Court's majority opinion reinterpreting the Voting Rights...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
..."Ballad of Thunder Road" written and recorded by Robert Mitchum. Audio Samples Like much of the United States, the South became increasingly car-centered in the second half...