Besieged Terrain
...arrow darter, and the endangered, "gorgeous" Allegheny wood rat. The southern Appalachian Mountains consist of four broad provinces: the Blue Ridge, Great Valley, Ridge and Valley, and Appalachian Plateau. The...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...of African Americans from the South played football in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and the Southwest Conference (SWC), leaving the best African American high-school players...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...proslavery policymakers, Great Britain represented the greatest existential threat. When the Atlantic's preeminent commercial and military power moved to abolish slavery in its empire, the battle lines were drawn in...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...to impede the gentrification of southwest Atlanta, and Food4Lives a non-profit started by Georgia Tech and Emory students provides food and supplies for the unhoused in the greater Atlanta area.7Katie...
Whiskey and Geography
...Wood, Jr., From Ulster to Carolina: The Migration of the Scotch-Irish to Southwestern North Carolina (Raleigh: North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, 1998), 33. Corn...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...See also Leslie Goode, "Harris Pictures," accessed July 5, 2011, http://www.harrispictures.com/. Harris Pictures is authored and operated by Leslie Goode, great-granddaughter of W. J. Harris. Her business currently sells t-shirts,...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...saltwater dominated. Dimmitt: I believe that this diptych shows the greatest span of time. This is from the dock looking downstream in 1986. And then the follow-up is 2020. It's...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
..."was reported in 1855 as possessing no less than 174 living children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren."4Martin Crawford, Ashe County's Civil War: Community and Society in the Appalachian South (Charlottesville: University Press...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...Gulf South: one that would include eastern Mexico and the Greater Caribbean. This is not to say that they did not appreciate the political distinctions between these places, but in...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...addition to thinking about power, equity, and accessibility, Smith’s work deals specifically with the experiences of Black communities in the Delta—places such as Leflore, Sunflower, and North Bolivar counties—and builds...