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...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...one another. A soundscape loop presents a range of first person commentaries, including WPA oral histories, about slave sales. In its new location, the sack is hung entirely vertically, with...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...for them in New York. More local dates followed—a gig opening the new late-night coffee club Night Gallery, and more shows at the 40-Watt and other Athens venues. By early...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...control access to the "sick role," the sole avenue by which adults may legitimately escape the daily responsibilities of their class, race, and gender.11See Talcott Parsons, The Social System (New...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...in a mode promoting social justice and change for all LGBTQ+ people. My wrist might not be ‘stiff’ in the way my dad intended, but I think my artistic mission...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...the 1960s and 1970s, activists promoted a related golden-age vision of egalitarian pastoralism in pre-industrial Appalachia, which they contrasted with the ugliness of strip mining, black lung disease, and other...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...one of the matriarchs of the African American community of Newton County, Georgia, as she led me and my students in 2000 across the Oxford Historic Cemetery. She pointed out...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...dirt track racers defying death in stripped-down vehicles with high performance engines, the glitz and product promotion of modern day NASCAR, and the window-tinted, stretch-limo world of rap culture. Country...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...Fisher's new real estate venture in the mangrove swamps of south Florida—Miami Beach. Despite Fisher's self-interested agenda, the idea attracted broad support from farmers, businessmen and tourism promoters, automobile enthusiasts,...
Stand & Witness: Art in the Time of COVID-19
...as the “forgotten pandemic,” COVID-19 took place in an era of global connection and social media, allowing for new audiences and shared artistic production. While scientists worked to understand the...