Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...time when national chains like McDonald's and Church's Chicken were experimenting with catfish on the menu. There was great promise for the Scotts nationally, coupled with great resistance against them...
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...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...felt great loyalty to the memory of the Confederacy, but they appear to have shared the prevailing white Southern sentiment that the flag was best reserved for honoring the Confederate...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...Studies, for example, faces funding cuts under an education regime that has seen declining public support for higher education, a greater reliance on tuition dollars to fund higher education, a...
"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...
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...
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...
"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...