What Happened to the Left?
In Michael Kazin’s recent essay in the New York Times, he pointed out that measures that became institutionalized during the New Deal – Social Security,… Read More »What Happened to the Left?
Stetson Kennedy
Stetson Kennedy Delved into Florida Life
Stetson Kennedy records his wife Edith in 1939. Stetson Kennedy, who died on Saturday as Hurricane Irene stormed up the East Coast, had a love… Read More »Stetson Kennedy Delved into Florida Life
Jobs and the WPA Guide to Florida
The WPA Guide to Florida, which marks its 70th anniversary this week, is unlike other travel guides, as I wrote in yesterday’s Florida Times-Union. The… Read More »Jobs and the WPA Guide to Florida
Hearing a Culture Change in Florida
Seventy years ago this month, Zora Neale Hurston began a landmark field recording tour, traveling down through Florida’s hot coastal towns and turpentine camps, gathering… Read More »Hearing a Culture Change in Florida