Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...designate a "region" where this term had little contemporary meaning. Map identifying Spanish treasure fleets, ca. 1720. Map by Emanuel Bowen. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Geography and Map...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...Apple kitchen, ca. 1970s Sibley reared their three children while Little's drinking and misbehaving intensified. (He died from a stroke in 1953 at age forty-five.)17Turned Funny, 177-78. Sibley was, in...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...people have drawn on a limited number of tropes. Whether Bayard Wootten's photographic illustrations for Cabins in the Laurel,1Muriel Earley Sheppard, Cabins in the Laurel (Chapel Hill: University of North...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...broke free from their enslaving masters and ran the show by themselves. Having made a fortune in a decade, they retired to western North Carolina, bought land, built houses, married...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...continue beyond the first half of 2010. From June 2009 through March 2010, the number of jobless workers continued to grow in the South and the West. The number of...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...in Jelly-Schapiro's travel narrative. There are two small exceptions. While Lowe devotes half a chapter to Lafcadio Hearn, Jelly-Schapiro casually mentions a parking garage in Fort-de-France named in Hearn's honor;...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...pool where orange salamanders swirled and scuttled like flames. It was not muttered words that urged me back to that church, nor was it the hard comfort of pews rowed...
Besieged Terrain
...the largely unappreciated and mostly forgotten parts of the southern mountains. The Embattled Wilderness is an effort to rescue what appears to be an insignificant, fourteen thousand acre woodland, the...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...to take, returning the rest to forage through the delta mud. The numbers in the coolers spoke: they were falling, 300 pounds, 225, 175. Every year they fell—he remembers 1,500...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...north. Over the first half of the nineteenth century, the numbers of enslaved in the District of Columbia declined. By 1850 (when Nannie was two years old) 3,185 of the 13,746...