Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...selected to at least four of the magazine's exclusive lists. FedEx appears on five in 2005: Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For, America's Most Admired Companies, World's Most Admired...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...a PhD in American Studies and an MFA in Creative Writing. Her book Last Stand of the Louisiana Shrimpers is forthcoming from University of Mississippi Press in September 2022. Peopling...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...County, State of Georgia, United States, Including Numerous Incidents of More Than Local Interest, 1540–1922 (Atlanta, GA: The Webb and Vary Co., 1922), 33–4; Jerry R. Desmond, Georgia's Rome: A Brief...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...3, 2012, http://3littledigs.com/blog/2012/09/03/studio-life-dee-1/. Dee-1 remembers, Hurricane Isaac, that stuff, that stuff really . . . that stuff was unexpected. My parents lost their house, they lost both of their cars....
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...Washington Evening Star writer to later reminisce that opossum suppers were "great vote-getters in the south."69"'Possum for President in Southern Style," Evening Star (Washington, DC), Dec. 22, 1907, 3, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1907-12-22/ed-1/seq-51/....
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...the Jindal administration is helping Big Oil rip off a cash-strapped state," Southern Studies, May 7, 2015, http://www.southernstudies.org/2015/05/looting-louisiana-how-the-jindal-administration-is.html. Even some oil and gas firms thought themselves to be under-regulated: "A 1979...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...Diseases, ed. William Josephus Robinson (New York: The Altrurians, 1909). For historical studies on this, see Theodor Rosebury, Microbes and Morals: The Strange Story of Venereal Disease (New York: Viking...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...That same year, black students from St. Augustine University and Shaw University staged sit-ins at lunch counters in Raleigh to protest the whites-only policies at Woolworths and other stores.4Jeffrey Crow,...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...site bounded by the contemporary streets of Abbot St. (east), Louisville Rd. (south), railroad tracks parallel to Hopper St. (west) and Old Lathrop and Augusta Avenue to the north. At...
Besieged Terrain
...from a strip mine on its south-southeast border, Robinson Forest, Kentucky, 2009. Photograph courtesy of Kentucky Heartwood. Strip mine on the south-southeast border of Robinson Forest, Kentucky, 2009. Photograph courtesy...