Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...begins again to stretch awake, move out into the world. The biscuits and gravy are still there, and the Luckies, and the soldiers on the streets from Camp Croft, all...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...such tactical allies as Picasso and Alfred North Whitehead, she remained a fascinated student of past and present life in the United States, from the time she began writing The...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...in 1976, sits southwest of downtown, eight miles west of the Atlanta Masjid, in an area known as the West End. As an upwardly mobile community, West End Muslims also...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...quilt made a statement about the family's social status. The Bensons could have purchased the chintz locally but it is quite possible that they demonstrated the importance of their eldest...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...assistant professor of history at the University of California–Riverside, divides the book into three parts. The first—"What"—concerns the sort of information European settlers most desired: gold. Upon hearing from an Indian...
Deep Ellum Blues
...Freedmantown. Studio D, which Frank Campagna had opened in his art studio around 1982 pretty far east on Main Street (just before the old Deep Ellum neighborhood reached Fair Park),...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...Union Band Society and Mount Zion Cemeteries. The old Methodist Burying Ground was purchased in 1808 by the Montgomery Street Church in Georgetown, one of the first Methodist churches in...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...students (approximately 2/3 of all US public school students) in 2008. Almost all districts in the study had individual enrollment totals of at least 1,800 students. See full report at The...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...and dehumanizing effects before and beyond the grave. Off the coast of Grenada, several meters below the Caribbean surface, stands Jason deCaires Taylor's Vicissitudes. It is an installation of statues...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...Monsanto acquired the Swann Chemical Company plant, located just west of Anniston, in 1935. Reproduced from Baptized in PCBs, 60. Courtesy of Ellen Spears. The concealment of such "toxic knowledge"...