Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...Mining Town, Osage, West Virginia, 1938, loc.gov/pictures/item/2017799292. Photographs by FSA photographer Marion Post Wolcott. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Most striking in this "visual counter...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...by Dotter (Base Map Data: US Census Bureau). Town Life Connecting with people in specific places lies at the heart of Dotter's project of documenting miners. The photographs in this section...
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...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...the Sacred Harp. (From Wikipedia) Sacred Harp "Rudiments" from 1911 edition of the Original Sacred Harp. Image courtesy of Emory University Pitts Theology Library. What gives Sacred Harp...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Besieged Terrain
...the people who had destroyed them. Map showing Robinson Forest and surrounding sites of mountaintop removal and strip-mining, Robinson Forest, Kentucky, 2012. Map by Southern Spaces, created with Google Earth...
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...