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...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...Mississippi, exactly one year after Hurricane Katrina had touched down. The Katrina, One Year Later project would feature the work of David Wharton, Todd Bertolaet from Florida A&M University, and...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...of regionalism reveal their politics: Longstreet's states' rights conservatism and Hooper's southern Whiggery. Even though their political allegiances differed, both men ended up as secessionists in the late 1850s. Political...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...fight that followed, the overseer was killed, as were some of the Black workers; others were later lynched. A few days later, a young white worker was beaten and driven...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
Review Understanding the creation of social spaces in an unfamiliar landscape is, according to Robert Paulett, a productive way to account for eighteenth-century developments in the American Southeast, particularly in...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
The Crowd He Becomes
15 September 1963, Birmingham Later he will say he did not do it, he was home at breakfast, just ask the wife, say they heard some radio preacher doing love...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...artisan in his own residence. © Neil Alexander/neilphoto.com The late Earl Barthé’s social dream and work aesthetics, along with the late Eddie Bo’s approach as Creole craftsman, are slowly being...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...years before the intruding Spaniards came here in the late seventeenth century. The very first European settlement in the Chattahoochee Valley was established in 1689 by Spanish monks who, accompanied...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...his wife, Martha Custis Washington. After Mrs. Washington's death in 1802, a number of her slaves at Mount Vernon were inherited by Martha Custis Peter, adding to the Peter family...