The Carolina Piedmont
...that connected mountains with coast. Faced with increasing white numbers and hostility, as well as the ravages of smallpox and the occupation of their familiar territory, natives desperately sought strategies...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...regions of the United States, University of Mississippi ethnohistorian Robbie Ethridge’s work brings the concept of the “shatter zone” to bear on the history of contact between settlers and Native...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...the box represents both time and the Atlantic expanse, through which and across which Bailey reaches. Radcliffe Bailey, Uprooted, 2002. Mixed media on wood panel, 60-1/4 x 238-1/4 x 3-5/8...
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2005. From Dorothy Moye's Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition. 400-600 word proposals should include: a description of the major ideas, arguments, and sources for the...
The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
...The agent would then suggest they practice safe sex using condoms, before arresting the unsuspecting target. The charge? Attempting a crime against nature. The Sheriff's department offered an explanation on...
1108 Dynamite Hill
...line between white and Black property: white residents on the west side and Black residents on the east side. Ignoring Jim Crow, Drew's family and other Black families crossed the...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...immovable or sacrosanct or inevitable by locality. Since 2002, Louisiana has wooed filmmakers and television producers through the state's Motion Picture Tax Incentive Act, which offers a 30 percent tax...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...Park Between 1907 and 1911, at least six versions of this particular image circulated on Ponce de Leon Park postcards.23See Atlanta History Center, Atlanta Postcard Collection. Another version Souvenir postcards...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...of therapy lasted between twenty and thirty weeks, patients were "expected to make arrangements to pay [their] own room and board."43Oliver Wenger, "Instructions" (1921), Oliver C. Wenger Papers, Box 1,...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...by Dr. Marc Mullinax. Courtesy of the Liston B. Ramsey Center for Regional Studies at Mars Hill University. By doing their jobs, Appalachian Studies teachers and researchers have furthered the...