Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...Lowrie and Valeria Anderson. I spoke with the writers Philip Lee Williams, Richard Bausch, Anthony Grooms, Gary Gildner, and Terry Kay. I spoke with his nephews and co-executors of his...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
Essay The sesquicentennial of the Civil War catches the nation in the middle of a conversation. Evidence about Americans’ opinions is contradictory and confusing. On one hand, public commemorations show...
The Shenandoah Valley
The Shenandoah Valley Edward Beyer, Digital Restoration of "Harper's Ferry from Jefferson Rock" from Album of Virginia: Illustrations of the Old Dominion, 1858. The Shenandoah Valley's history marks it as...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
Introduction Popular American films and literature often depict tornadoes as distinctly midwestern phenomena: a girl in Kansas is whisked away by an afternoon cyclone, a pack of storm chasers follow...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...the metaphors of ecology, biology, and natural processes." Under the influence of poets such as Gary Snyder, the result, as Lane describes in "Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...field, displaced residents of the Mechanicsville, Peoplestown, and Summerhill neighborhoods. See Map Musing on the commercial atmosphere of the Atlanta Games, Gary Smith of Sports Illustrated wrote, "When you select,...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
1926 Pharus Map of Berlin, Andrew Battista’s "Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: a Review of Hypercities," September 15, 2015. Screenshot courtesy of Southern Spaces. Beginnings How did you become...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
Introduction This here tale begins in the summer of that year, whatever year it was . . . The year don't matter. The national situation don't even matter, because even...