Good-Bye to All That?
...representation in the state house and senate moved back and forth between fairly conservative Democrats and moderate Republicans and there was considerable cross-party cooperation. Party affiliation by race in Pisgah...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...broke free from their enslaving masters and ran the show by themselves. Having made a fortune in a decade, they retired to western North Carolina, bought land, built houses, married...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...of fancy.2Edith Mayfield Wiggins, telephone conversation with author, July 10, 2014. Hers was a childhood surrounded by art publications and crafts in various media, and included museum trips to New...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...original writings and projects about the Atlanta region, resources for the region, and events such as quarterly meetups and an annual Atlanta Studies Symposium. Atlanta Studies is a collaborative effort,...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...capital of the Confederacy. Virginia established the most active commission for the centennial and invested $1.75 million in the effort, much of it for a new building in Richmond. The...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...pool where orange salamanders swirled and scuttled like flames. It was not muttered words that urged me back to that church, nor was it the hard comfort of pews rowed...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...in Jelly-Schapiro's travel narrative. There are two small exceptions. While Lowe devotes half a chapter to Lafcadio Hearn, Jelly-Schapiro casually mentions a parking garage in Fort-de-France named in Hearn's honor;...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...but multi-pronged effort has given us a fuller sense of activism that emerges from and addresses larger social and economic inequalities. What we call environmental justice is finally getting a...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...number of reported tornadoes in the state each year is twenty-five, with sixty-two the highest number reported in a single year, and five the fewest. The average number of tornado-related...