Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...(42, 47). As the numbers and voices of newer residents surpassed those of long-time residents, the diversity policy long understood as "fair and beneficial to children of all backgrounds" became...
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...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...Florida, Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina, as well as in New Mexico, California, and a few other states outside the South, an increase in the number of Latino children appears...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
Review The yeoman farmer is a central figure in debates over the historical dispossessions that created the place we now call Appalachia. For historians like Ron Eller, these self-sufficient small...
The Bulletin—January 29, 2013
...majority-minority district in order to "enhance Virginia's compliance with the Voting Rights Act." State-level redistricting plans enacted in Alabama, Texas, and Florida since the 2010 US Census are also being...
Transcript: Interview with Precious Bryant
Interview excerpt in which Precious Bryant discusses some of her earliest musical experiences. Recorded by Steve Bransford in Waverly Hall, Georgia, 2003. Courtesy of Steve Bransford. From "Blues in the...
The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
...of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733–1816 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), and Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family (Oxford: Oxford University...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 (New York: W. W. Norton, 2014) and Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)....
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency boat ride on the Mississippi River, Memphis, Tennessee, 2008
Amie Vanderford, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency boat ride on the Mississippi River, Memphis, Tennessee, 2008....
The Place of Appalachia
...Mitchell explains in The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space (New York: Guilford Press, 2003), 18: "Idiocy in this sense does not refer to...