Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...and Joanie Greve, “Koch network laying groundwork to fundamentally transform America’s education system,” Washington Post, Jan. 20, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/01/30/daily-202-koch-network-laying-groundwork-to-fundamentally-transform-america-s-education-system/5a6feb8530fb041c3c7d74db/. Consider the voucher advocates who believe in economist Milton Freidman’s vision...
Roadside Architecture
...photographs that follow are of portions of the humanly-made physical landscape in Mississippi and other parts of the deep South. More specifically, they focus on buildings in rural or, occasionally,...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
...Amie Vanderford is a freelance photographer currently living in Memphis and working primarily in the non-profit sector. Vanderford's work has been featured in a wide range of publications, silent auctions...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...Solutions for a Post-Petrochemical Culture." The utterly disparate list—tagged with letters that refer to the sections of the Ecological Atlas but are otherwise merely alphabetized—includes everything from consumer choices ("Eco-Friendly...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...a family of apparently fairly well-to-do drapers. He studied for the ministry at the University of Glasgow, emigrated to America in 1750, and became a protégé of an important New...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...experiences of the Trail of Tears. His inability to anchor consistently his interpretation in indigenous concepts of flow and propriety fails to clarify how understanding their expulsion can be usefully explored...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...Professor Alexander Means, who briefly served as the college's president. The last time I looked at the tree with Ms. Williams, she sighed and quietly remarked, "How they loved Billy,...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...the country and often differ markedly in character. Members concentrated their time and commitment on political causes rather than on jobs (much less careers), were downwardly mobile, lived communally, and...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...One Human Family sign, Key West, Florida, December 18, 2012. Photograph courtesy of Flickr users Ed and Eddie. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 2.0. One Human Family mosaic, Key West,...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...from Washington and New York—in most cases the only daily news source they trusted.2Mary Ann Watson, The Expanding Vista: American Television in the Kennedy Years (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990),:...