An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...days—the government inspection steamer, Mississippi, and John Newton, and a couple of others: in New Orleans we'd see the Delta Queen or the Gordon C. Green. My father knew the...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...on the Local and National Economies," in Perspectives on the Restoration of the Mississippi Delta: The Once and Future Delta, eds. J.W. Day, G.P. Kemp, A.M. Freeman, and D. P. Muth (New York: Springer,...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...existing social needs. When hotel rooms, meals, and clothes were made available to the displaced, people already homeless in Columbia showed up too. The heightened awareness of existing problems and...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...also facing off against Halpert's bulky, furniture-sized machine to offer her own definitive repertoire of southern vernacular culture for the archive. A copy of Halpert's "Tentative Record Check List" from...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
Introduction Recording of "Coronation" #63 sung by Hoboken Sacred Harp Singers, led by Silas Lee, Florida Folk Festival. Courtesy of Florida Folklife Collection, State Library of Florida, May 4, 1958. Music...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...susceptible to DDT-induced illness. From existing letters, it's unclear if this is how they felt from the start, or whether they developed this idea in response to official dismissals of...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...1904, 1. After the commission's departure, Stahl continued treating patients until June 15, when the existing medicines ran out. Field Hospital at Utuado, Puerto Rico, 1911. Originally published in Bailey...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...supported the placement of Native children into "white" households throughout the existing United States. By the first decades of the nineteenth century, a small group of American Indians in the...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...Indian leaders, not from just anyone who would talk to them. What emerged were "bitter, competing," and "coexisting articulations of power" (214). While Dubcovsky does an excellent job of weaving...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...LaFollette in 1953, remained segregated and operated principally to serve white residents. There is no existing evidence that members of Campbell County's black population were ever featured on WLAF or...