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...
The Liminal Site
...Vulcan statue. In 1924, when America's leading landscape architecture firm, Olmsted Brothers, put together their proposal A System of Parks and Playgrounds for Birmingham, they recommended this area be part...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...how the unique geography of the area has shaped industrial infrastructures and how petrochemical production continues to alter the landscape. The first part of Petrochemical America consists of photographs taken...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...fatalities. Dotter also finds a new generation of volunteers coming to the region to test water quality and assess the environmental costs of industrial mining. Map of the area photographed...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...Tyger River area. Rosa was the oldest of the eleven children of Silas and Nancy. The quilt that Silas and Nancy Benson gave their daughter was a whole-cloth quilt of...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
Review The defeat of the Confederacy, the prospect of military occupation and Republican state government, and the financial collapse of many plantations and businesses sent a number of white southerners...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...spaces in the D.C. area, and yet was reelected to Congress for his conservative Republican values. Eventually, he was caught again and run out of office. We thought about Aaron...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...prejudices against prominent whites who occasionally consumed this lowly scavenger. The American persimmon tree (Diospyros virginiana)—an early invading species in disturbed areas and along forest-pasture boundaries—was common throughout the opossum's...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
Review Any historical account requires a framing device—temporal, thematic, or geographical—establishing the scope of enquiry. A Caribbean history typically invokes fairly settled geographical parameters that delimit the area to insular...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...toward other rural and urban areas known as "new settlement" destinations. Potential employment opportunities fueled migration to southern cities as well as attracted a growing number of foreign-born workers. Unlike...