CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...by the Center for Disease Control," Federal Register 88, no. 29 (2023): 9290, https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/13/2023-02929/cdc-moving-forward-reorganization. Yes, SARS CoV-2 is a novel pathogen that spread rapidly, wreaked extraordinary devastation, and evolved quickly. Lots...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...federal power and the need to maintain southern segregation, but the events of September 1962 showed unrestrained violence at the campus and federal marshals struggling to bring order. A year...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...too, feels—as a secular Jew, a lesbian, an experimental writer, and a lifelong expatriate—that her life represents both a confirmation of and a radical reinvention of and departure from her...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
I walk red roads, unpaved, blowing away, kicking leeched-dry clay. August. Near a lake fenced with chain link, red brick walls of the cotton mill shine in mid-morning Southern sun....
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...the government, and his wife Lynda, who is a supervisor at Wal-Mart. Their son Paul was there, he's an exterminator, with his sweet wife, a beautician at Woodstock, who's expecting...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...life of Chang and Eng in the next county was just getting more complicated. Since 1844, each twin and his wife had increased their brood at a steady pace of...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...multiple uses, as livestock feed and human food, medicine, dye, clothing, storage, cordage, etc.10M.A. Altieri, Agroecology: The Scientific Basis of Alternative Agriculture (Boulder: Westview Press, 1995). Shand, Human Nature. ...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...printed chintz — that is, the quilt was made from lengths of fabric featuring a factory-printed design of large floral wreaths. As a wedding gift, this quilt was symbolic rather...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...government will consider safe for human habitation" (243). The information should have been no surprise to Monsanto. In her testimony, Mims had recalled how, back in 1970, company representatives had...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...from and why they existed. Something larger than folk music, rooted in the long history of exploitation of the region, fueled the doubts and fears. "Suspicion starts with a feeling...