The following is an excerpt from Clues to Lower Mississippi Valley Histories: Language, Archaeology, and Ethnography by David V. Kaufman, available now. From the introduction The Mississippi Valley is the heartland of early North American civilizations. The region is … Continue reading Excerpt: Clues to Lower Mississippi Valley Histories
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, this list of books highlights the Civil Rights movement in America. The Struggle in Black and Brown: African American and Mexican American Relations during the Civil Rights Era Edited and with … Continue reading Reading List: Civil Rights in America
Diane Kiesel is an acting justice of the New York State Supreme Court. She presides in the Bronx County Criminal Term. A former journalist, she is a winner of the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism and is the … Continue reading From the desk of Diane Kiesel: Dorothy Ferebee’s story
Mississippi Band of Choctaws in front of the Supreme Court Katherine M. B. Osburn is an associate professor of history at Arizona State University. She is the author of Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi: Race, Class, and Nation Building in the … Continue reading From the desk of Katherine M.B. Osburn: Dollar General v. Miss. Choctaws
