An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...because you can ruin things for the reader. You can give him a piece of graphic violence that will just overpower the rest of the narrative for him because he...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...authority in religious matters, paid inordinate attention to female reproductive organs as the cause of insanity, and promoted a racialized vision of healthy womanhood that ignored the trauma of abuse....
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...Communist Party vice-presidential candidate James W. Ford in October 1936, Daniels wrote a scolding editorial denouncing Ericson's action, not because Ford was a communist, but because he was black.22Eagles, Jonathan Daniels...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...a growing interest not just in maintaining existing theaters, but in constructing new ones.7"Drive-in Theater Search," Drive-ins.com, http://drive-ins.com/srchdest.htm?name=&city=&code=al&status_op=open&search.x=13&search.y=12. Six of Alabama's ten drive-ins opened since 1996.8Calvin R. Trice, "Couple seek...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...engaged. We could locate oysters and restore nineteenth-century reef names because food historians such as Robb Walsh found maps and newspaper stories from before the beds were scientifically coded and...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...a library and study in the upper story of his house, which was his constant resort. During the day, his brother-in-law, Mr. Archibald Davie, had been at the house and...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...in its advertisements and promotional materials. Even in Democratic Clayton County, campaign spots promoted the creation of a super-arterial highway along Tara Boulevard, but said precious little about the resuscitation...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...Jupiter, El Sol, that had done such good work. But I have gotten ahead of myself because Guestworker came first. I worked with Cynthia Hill on that because I had...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...Monkey, began to operate the unused sharecropper house as a lounge. (Enlarged Map: Poor Monkey's and Merigold) The building is made of unpainted cypress planks, roofed with corrugated galvanized steel...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...automated belt. That's different. Roof-bolting is a much, much more secure job than it used to be because of these machines that hydraulically support the roof where the roof-bolt is...