Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...status and—even better—bestsellerdom, Stein had spent three decades searching for a form and a format in which to present her writing that might help readers beyond her tiny coterie of...
The Carolina Piedmont
...all that is "southern," it has a distinctive history and geography. A yeoman farming society took shape in this region, formed, as cultural geographer D. W. Meinig has written, "by...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...Shand, and I had a pick-your-own at that point. Then I hired a woman, who was likely in her seventies, and she came with her two grandchildren, and they helped...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...straight-forward manner to best present the car and its owner. Car club members suggested locations for their significance in the local African American communities: Old Bethel A.M.E. Church, Buck Hall...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...their part Ellis and McLane choose to argue that classicism rather than romanticism is the best was to characterize Flaherty's work. New History of Documentary Film (NY: Continuum, 2008). In order to...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...man John over 50, $225 Negro man Daniel 33, $410 Ned, 30, $500 Morris (?) 24, $600 George? (?) 14, $350 Sandy, 7, $200 Joseph very old, $100 Woman Celia...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...T. Buford, First Lieutenant Independent Scouts C.S.A. Illustrations from The Woman in Battle (1876). Courtesy of Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Apple and Ashes's final...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...grid is a photograph of a young, blonde-haired woman in sunglasses, head hanging out of a demolition derby car at the Crossville Raceway in Cumberland County. While this image may...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...as forty anti-Semitic groups operating in the South at the time of the black freedom struggle. Some of these organizations promoted their cause exclusively through propaganda. Others took more direct...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...felt great loyalty to the memory of the Confederacy, but they appear to have shared the prevailing white Southern sentiment that the flag was best reserved for honoring the Confederate...