Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...former slaves soon turned to dust. Slavery was gone, but so was the promise of economic and political freedom; every southern state passed laws mandating racial segregation in a "separate...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...during the civil rights movement. Banner from the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride website, 2003. How do we make sense of these entanglements of a South contoured by a historical black-white...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...landscape of the Eastern Shore (see http://www.vcrlter.virginia.edu/). The fourteen coastal barrier islands of Eastern Shore Virginia, with their associated beaches, intervening inlets, marsh islands, mud flats, salt marshes, shallow bays...
A Green Democratic Revolution
Although it is only in the past fifty years that the awareness of global warming and its possible consequences for the survival of our societies has become a decisive political...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...musicians and artists, including photographers, have found creative inspiration at the crossroads of darkness and light where a past haunted by violence and exploitation intersects with places teeming with natural...
Cover of darkness, Gasparilla invasion, Tampa, Florida, 2006
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...are arranged to form a "checkerboard" design of alternating dark and light diamonds. Construction: Rosa's Log Cabin incorporates a large number of different printed fabrics. The dark palette is limited...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...Laboratory. Built as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II, Oak Ridge was one of three federal production sites housing workers and scientists who developed the atomic bomb....
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...sentimental, full of clenched drama and secrets and surprises but always subtle."5Quotes taken from Pancake's personal website, http://www.annpancake.blogspot.com. Pancake has received the Bakeless Literary Award for short story writing, a...
The Morning with Many Tongues
...website: www.seanhill.org. Interview with Natasha Trethewey In these excerpts from a December 17, 2008 conversation, Sean Hill talks about sources and influences of the poems in Blood Ties & Brown...