Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...Oral Arguments, 40–41. Was Chief Justice Roberts slyly proposing that Section 5 should extend from sea to shining sea? Probably not. Roberts's question sounded more like the political posturing that...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...into the sea. The story is one of the transformation that is possible if one wakes up to the beauty and wonder of the earth, if one fears not, if...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...carrying her clothes, my unborn sister, nothing left of marriage but the cheap ring. There was her father, Lonnie, the house painter, in Lantana. Lonnie, always drinking, laughing at poverty....
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...for salt water to reach fresh water marshes. Salt water intrusion can also occur due to weather-related storm surges or rising sea levels. Theriot quickly enmeshes readers in the underlying...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...flowers achieved with a limited number of colors and characteristic dotted backgrounds in black or blue." More expensive than everyday fabrics, the choice of an imported chintz for a wedding...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...disparate strands of evidence in Spanish, English, French, and indigenous language sources into a larger tapestry characterized by the irony of communication, she leaves a number of loose ends. Mentioning...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...for remaining practitioners of country blues, they did not search the Lower Chattahoochee. In 1967, George Mitchell conducted field research in Mississippi, locating such blues musicians as Joe Callicott, who...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...by sea, the systematic loading and unloading of cargoes depended upon a stable and sizable portside workforce, whether Egyptian laborers in Alexandria stowing sacks of grain bound for fourth-century Rome...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...Hermanos (2010) and The Guestworker/Bienvenidos a Carolina del Norte (2007). The Guestworker follows Don Cande, a participant in the federal H2A Guest Worker program, through a harvest season in North...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...divided. The seating arrangement in the church is as follows. The pastor is seated behind the pulpit. All preachers attending are seated at the front wall of the church. The...