Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
Review When Hernando de Soto's army of six hundred soldiers reached the middle Savannah River in 1540, arriving in what is today South Carolina and Georgia, they likely thought they...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...Carolina. Gravestone attributed to the Bigham workshop. But on his way to the Cherokee country Richardson had acted at the direction of the presbytery to install the Reverend Alexander Craighead...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...and environmental justice with specializations in democratic design, digital media, and interpreting cultural landscapes. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Conservation Network and the Landscape Architecture Foundation....
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...Anslinger, the director of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics from 1930–1962 in Kathleen Frydl, The Drug Wars in America, 1940–1973 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 59–119. In the very...
Quilting Conversation
...Corporation, and the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport). She is a teaching artist affiliated with the High Museum, VSA arts of Georgia, the Atlanta Partnership for the Arts in Learning, and the...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...emotion at the Cape Town Airport as we headed home. South African Dennis Swarz told us to nurture those "ordinary moments when extraordinary things can happen," including sporting events and...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Anglophone Caribbean's plantation zone. The founding of a settlement that became Charleston, South Carolina, by a group of planters from Barbados in the 1670s functions as the analytical core of...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...to take, returning the rest to forage through the delta mud. The numbers in the coolers spoke: they were falling, 300 pounds, 225, 175. Every year they fell—he remembers 1,500...
Besieged Terrain
...The technique destroys forests, introduces heavy metals into drinking water, vastly increases erosion and flooding, and reduces the number of many species of birds, especially wood warblers, and other rare...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...lights on, businesses like Wal-Mart are becoming the major employers. When mines close and the number of miners decreases, company housing may deteriorate, be abandoned, or replaced by mobile homes....