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...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...always been exaggerated; the leadership style has tended toward what V. O. Key called "progressive plutocracy," or, as the late George Tindall more tactfully described it, "business progressivism." Governors Luther...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...show's website: "While many islands in the Caribbean have poisoned or paved over their ecological riches on land and in the sea in pursuit of a growing tourist industry, Cuba's...
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....
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...no reliable data on the number of children with special needs enrolled in private schools. A small number were established to serve special needs students, but the vast majority do...
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...
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...
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...