Ari Kelman
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Ari Kelman
Ari Kelman is the McCabe Greer Professor of History at Penn State University, where he studies the U.S. Civil War, Western, Native American, and environmental history. Kelman's book, A Misplaced Massacre, won the 2014 Bancroft Prize, Avery O. Craven Award, Tom Watson Brown Book Award, and Robert M. Utley Prize...
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Before there were paved roads or railroads or airplanes or the Internet, there was the Mississippi running down to New Orleans.
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With billions of dollars sunk into the soil in southern Louisiana and the Gulf Coast, ... it's kind of too late. We're there, and we're staying there.