<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Along the Mississippi the spirit of vanished culture lingers in the ruined columns of the great plantations</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> A TALE OF RECONSTRUCTION<br /><span class="typestyle"> Of the turbulent career of Pinckney B. S. Pinchback, adventurer, operator, and first black governor of Louisiana. He reminds one powerfully, says the author, of the late Adam Clay ton Powell, Jr.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">With astonishing tenacity, the people of the rich river-mouth region of the Mississippi have remained what and where they are through two and a half centuries</span> </p>
<p>The Revolution might have ended much differently for the Americans if it weren’t for their ally, the Spanish governor of Louisiana, who helped them wrestle the Mississippi valley from the British. </p>
<p><span class="deck">A brilliant demagogue named Huey Long was scrambling for the presidency when an assassin’s bullets cut him down just 50 years ago.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">New Orleans cuisine, with its French roux, African okra, Indian filé, and Spanish peppers, is literally a gastronomic melting pot. Here’s how it all came together.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Behind the Cajuns<em>’ </em><span class="typestyle"><em> joie de vivre</em></span> lies a strong-willed independence and a tumultuous past.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The foremost student of a belief held by nearly half of all Americans traces its history from Darwin’s bombshell through the storms of the Scopes trial to today’s “scientific creationists," who find William Jennings Bryan to have been too liberal.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Wynton Marsalis believes that America is in danger of losing the truest mirror of our national identity. If that’s the case, we are at least fortunate that, today, jazz’s foremost performer is also its most eloquent advocate.</span></p>
