Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...area and to the vast number of absentee landowners. Natural resource identification, mapping, and purchasing occurred as early as the eighteenth century, but these absentee holdings could not be fully...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...Owens, Mississippi Witness: The Photographs of Florence Mars (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2019); Thomas L. Johnson and Phillip C. Dunn, A True Likeness: The Black South of Richard Samuel...
Deep Ellum Blues
...the music of Bill Neely. "Blues in the Dallas school is about Dallas," emphasizes Paul Oliver. "In fact, no other blues school, with the exception, perhaps, of Chicago, gives us...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...associate director, describes the upcoming tour of CDC grounds, Atlanta, GA, on March 6, 2020. Photograph by Shealah Craighead. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in the public domain. "To...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...Transformation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005). Applying Sewell to the Catawbas affords Beck a fresh approach to questions of Native historiography. In applying social theory to coalescence, Beck argues...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...Increasing numbers of cars, trolleys, buses, and taxis enabled movement between downtown and suburbs; rural and urban areas; "colored" and "white" areas; and cultural and domestic spheres. The city's growth...
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...2020, as well as stories from March 2025 told by his younger sister, Đỗ Phương Anh Thư. My grandmother, Lê Thị Kim Hoa, and grandfather, Đỗ Phương Anh. Circa 1960...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...forty years to overturn the Brown decision. School Choice Programs in the United States, 2019. Map by Steve Suitts. Courtesy of the Southern Education Foundation. In the short run, the...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...to end the blockade in March 1963. In this process, SNCC was able to make a concerted effort to explicitly connect food and activism to highlight the “relationship between food,...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...in Washington, DC, Mildred and Richard decide, in violation of state law, to move back to Virginia with their three young children. They find a farmhouse. It has no telephone...