Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...Richardson Davie, a minor. Archibald Davie would then manage the estate. But Moore goes a step further. He concedes that Richardson may have committed suicide, but argues that murder was...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...able to intertwine the economic, medical, and environmental threads so successfully. One recent exception who managed to set the bar high is William Dusinberre, author of another fine Lowcountry study...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...Black people, the town was originally located on just over one hundred acres in what is now known as Greater Orlando.5United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, "National...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...© United States Postal Service. By reframing the history of coastal Carolina, Mulcahy succeeds in rendering "both the Lowcountry and the islands less anomalous within the larger context of colonial...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...poverty in the United States in 2008—surviving on less than seven or eight dollars per day. Almost one in every twelve children was in a household with an income below...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...in existing public housing and the one-to-one replacement of demolished units, HUD policies ultimately helped rid cities of public housing complexes. In the process, HUD began to relinquish oversight, management,...
The Chesapeake Bay
...human systems and the close interaction between environmental shifts and human societal, economic, and even political change. The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States and its...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...American community in Atlanta during the twentieth century. From the perspective of a specific community in a particular place at a critical period, studying race becomes more manageable and gains...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...southeastern United States in 2008. As water levels dropped, the city of Atlanta found itself in a particularly precarious position. Wholly dependent on supplies beyond its control, the city faced...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...in the world, the people in Central Appalachia, including those near my home in the southern West Virginia coalfields, are among the poorest people in the United States. Poverty rates...