Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...and jabbed her elbow in her brother's shaking side. "Whew!" She ran her slim hand over her eyes and squinted at the sky. They both lay back and watched the...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
Review When I saw a note about Chuck Thompson's new book, Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession, I had to take a look. From the title...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...events. I feel that viewers of the photographs have a better way of relating to the loss when they see other family members included in the scene. For instance, the...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...of civilization, outside of the southern states of this Union," it concluded. "The vengeance of the southern whites on negro ravishers shows that the elemental man, or the elemental savage,...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...of fertilizer to the aquifer. This has been going on longer than the impact of the sea level rise. I wasn’t aware of the sea level rise until 2014, but...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...Eng Bunker. Courtesy of the Southern Historical Collection, Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Then there were other stories about often-poisoned relations between...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...and McLane note, "The dramatis personae of the Flaherty films are the nuclear family structured along conventional lines."7Jack C. Ellis and Betsy A. McLane, A New History of Documentary Film, (NY:...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...elder Lee at age 85. As Johnny Lee, Silas's nephew and David's father, remarked that day, "A lot has changed since 1958 …[What has not changed are] this book (the...
The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
...York Times and Atlanta Magazine to illustrate these correlations. Nevertheless, this study only identified elements correlated to a lack of upward mobility without regard for causation. So if you'd like...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...charged by the carload. There is no playground in this austere space. Strips of parched grass run between gray gravel driveways. Heavily rusted speaker poles tilt awkwardly over mowed grass....