Cajun South Louisiana
...discovered shrimp and crawfish, making a compelling cuisine along the way. They came into a slave society, and after 1780 a significant number of them began to gain slaves. Most...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...a significant number of African American fans, her depiction of Atlanta and her search for what Massey calls "a place-called-home" during times of dramatic social change is that of a...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...in Washington, DC, Mildred and Richard decide, in violation of state law, to move back to Virginia with their three young children. They find a farmhouse. It has no telephone...
Genres of Southern Literature
Introduction Booklover's Map of the United States, 1949. Map by Amy Jones. Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA-3.0. "Southern literature" announces the conjunction...
Sprinkle Creek, North Carolina
NCDOT geologist, Rick Lochamy, looking for site to set up drill to do core rock sampling, Sprinkle Creek, NC, 1994. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Driving into the woods on...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...dated 13 February 1960. Permission granted by The Mary Flannery O'Connor Charitable Trust. All rights reserved. Available through Emory's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Qualifications and reservations aside, O'Connor...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...including Alabama ex-governor Emmet O'Neal, they understood that such officials frequently talked down mob violence by doubling down on state-sanctioned execution. For these "law and order" officials, capital punishment offered...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...Atlanta's history, politics, and the arts converge ... [They are] responsible for some of the most prominent aural and visual aesthetics that have come to define the South."1 Fahamu Pecou, phone...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...from Fauquier County, Virginia, sometime before 1800. A Baptist minister, he married a Miss Stringfellow, and they had eight children. Their son Silas was born in 1800. In 1825 Silas...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...no reliable data on the number of children with special needs enrolled in private schools. A small number were established to serve special needs students, but the vast majority do...