The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...1941. Numerous additional flood-control acts have authorized "corrective" works along the river and its tributaries, including new levees for containing flood flows and floodways for the swift passage of excess...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
...his PhD from Columbia University in 1993. Prof. Wiese’s areas of interest include the history of housing and residential landscapes, housing policy, suburbanization, and the spatial production of race and...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...Arts' Visual Arts Program. After years of going against the grain of post-war abstract expressionism, Benny's paintings and drawings depicting the lives of rural laborers with sparse but adroit flourishes...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...a southern office for the Racial and Cultural Relations Department of the New York-based National Council of Churches. For the next seven years, he was closely allied with most of...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...always resisting and yet forgiving blacks and admittedly evil and yet somehow always also atypical whites. Kara Walker is also fantasy's geographer. The space of fantasy is a space of...
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...global connections. From "Residues of Border Control," by Susan Harbage Page. "Spatial Justice" will examine social justice in the context of critical regional studies. The publication of this series will...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
...in general and slavery in particular. Academic scholars can be of great assistance in this critical venture, helping to develop the historical context for public presentation as a step toward...
Elegy for the Native Guards
...black phalanx. What is monument to their legacy? All the grave markers, all the crude headstones— water—lost. Now fish dart among their bones, and we listen for what the waves...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
Essay Map of global ecoregions. Courtesy of World Wildlife Fund. Environmental history emphasizes the role of humans as an integral part of their natural surroundings. Ecological systems and biological diversity,...
Fort Scott newspapers
...destruction upon himself. . . Back of the man was a vile fluid and a depraved appetite, all culminating in a disregard of law. That he is personally responsible for...