The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...illustrate the importance of their approach. Americans, of course, have always "improved" nature for the benefit of agriculture and commerce within the existing legal framework. Environmental and social historians too...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...society. Regionalism, therefore, was part of their ideological visions of the good society. Magical Realism and the Mississippi Delta by Art Taylor Lewis Nordan's Wolf Whistle draws upon historical concerns...
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...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...possible to discourage the Lees from returning. By 1888, 170 families (nearly 800 individuals) were still living in the village. Freedman's Village, Arlington, Virginia, ca. 1865. Photograph by unknown creator....
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...by Howard Emerson, March 1963, quoted in Howard Emerson, "Sharecropper's Strike, 1939" (Senior honors thesis, Southeast Missouri State University, 1963), 41; "Investigation Concerning the Sharecropper Situation Existing in Southeast Missouri,"...
The Shenandoah Valley
The Shenandoah Valley Edward Beyer, Digital Restoration of "Harper's Ferry from Jefferson Rock" from Album of Virginia: Illustrations of the Old Dominion, 1858. The Shenandoah Valley's history marks it as...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...also checked with the residents and business owners in the proposed new location to be sure cruising would not present a problem to them as well. However, the Montrose Circuit's...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
A General Note to Readers: I have intended this essay to be read and the films viewed together. Rather than narrate the films, I have presented an analysis of them...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...Smith, “Market Rivals or Class Allies? Relations between African American and Latino Immigrant Workers in Memphis,” in Shefner and Ansley, 299-317. Nonetheless, we also find echoes of African Americans’ oppression...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
Georgia, 1831. Map by Young & Delleker, Sc. Published by A. Finley. Courtesy of the Historic Maps collection, Georgia Archives, University System of Georgia. Georgia led the United States in the expulsion...