James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...river. It tries to build poultry processing plants, it schemes waste incinerators and biomass plants. In a poor region of the country, with a citizenry poorly educated about the environment,...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-04324. Since the 1790s, The piedmont has been dominated by an ethos shaped by Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian strains of Protestant belief...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...people view archives as the special, almost private, playland of scholars and intellectuals—scholars who essentially critique art and other forms of historical, political, social and cultural production or who mine...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...help subsidize the publication of the book; Willett 53.) Map of Wiregrass Region of Alabama Areas of Black Sacred Harp Activity African American Sacred Harp Audio: "Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers"...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...of place is recognition that natural geographic systems—ecoregions, biotic provinces, physiographic provinces, biomes, ecosystems, in short, larger and smaller representations of what we probably ought to call bioregions—are the appropriate...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...narratives helped to define the imagined South for post-Civil War readers, and popular writers like Mark Twain, Page, and Chesnutt. Upon Provincialism's most provocative arguments center on the "outing" of...
Mississippi Delta
...Mississippi, November 1939. Photograph by Marion Post Wolcott. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa2000032878/PP. Whites and their black slaves soon transformed the land, building vast cotton fields...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...terms. Mexican Central Railway, Central Mexico, ca. 1880–1897. Photograph by William Henry Jackson. Courtesy of the Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, http://www.loc.gov/resource/det.4a27391/. Instead, Wahlstrom...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...the political processes are equally open; that is, whether members of a protected class have the same opportunity as others to participate in the electoral process and to elect candidates...
The Crowd He Becomes
...the paperboys, ready to throw when the dark is right. See him Christmas, few years back, outside the preacher's house, thin fuse of cigarette, newspaper spread on the bus protests....