Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
Review When I saw a note about Chuck Thompson's new book, Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession, I had to take a look. From the title...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...with Miners for Democracy and the United Mine Workers Journal, Earl Dotter was one of the first to document miners' fights for better healthcare, pensions, working and living conditions. As...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...closed. A blanket is put over the casket. It is lowered into the vault box, and the top is fastened to the box. While the casket is being lowered, the...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...pokeweed, Henbit (Lamium amplexicaule), and broad-leaf (Rumex obtusifolius), and curley (Rumex crispus) dock 3) lamb's quarters (Chenopodium album), wild mustard (Brassica species), wild sage (Salvia lyrata) shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris),...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...never seen any place like this before. I had grown up in the Clearwater–Tampa Bay area, which was then probably three hours or more down the road. There are better...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...paid for by an income tax on the top one percent of household incomes in the United States and an Industrial Abandonment Tax, attached to any corporation that closed its...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...States" (xiii). It's an argument, says Spears, that is as urgent as the one made by Rachel Carson in Silent Spring more than half a century ago. "A Bird's Eye...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...reinforced many of the lessons provided during my extracurricular activities. Classes and conversations with Professors Sonia Sanchez, Bettye Collier Thomas, Greg Carr, Valethia Watkins, and Mario Beatty, among others, strengthened...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...stories about a lack of familiarity with local museums and cultural institutions. LiFT Art Salon measures success by the relationships it builds between people, institutions, and their histories, specifically between those spaces that...
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
Index of exhibitions on the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative (LDHI) homepage. Screenshot courtesy of Southern Spaces. The Lowcountry Digital History Initiative (LDHI) is an online public history project hosted by...