Mississippi Delta
...Plantation, Scott, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, October 1939. Photograph by Marion Post Wolcott. Courtesy of The New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f8d7-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99. Outside...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...to William Faulkner, and not because the songwriters in the band and the author of Absalom, Absalom hailed from Deep South places, but because both of them, in social science...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
Review For more than twenty years, scholars have sought in article after book after conference paper to expand the timeline, reach, and definition of environmental concern and activism. This uncoordinated...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, "[g]eology reigned as the supreme science, the field of scientific inquiry that seemed most capable of yielding conclusions about the ultimate nature of the...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...caprice of church- and charter-funded schools. The victims of the murder cult are largely poor children culled from far-away Christian schools and women pried from hidden brothels. If the show...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...the stylized detachment of "cool" violence. This scene is overheated, but not overdone, torture, but not porn. If these two scenes were the only striking moments in 12 Years a...
Congregation
...the workmen have erected a scaffolding around the tank, a radius of poles from which to hang the ropes that pull them up. From a distance, the scaffolding is a...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...the day grown weary with sad joy wound down. Then above the din came the sounds of a scuffle followed by a single explosion, silence and then screams. My wife...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...Take Highway 11 North all the way to Monroe. (Follow the instructions as outlined above.) Note: If you pass Church’s Chicken you have gone too far. Church Telephone Number 770-267-5819...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...Mitchell's apartment and the building's history, an example of the original scholarship encouraged by the collaborative publication. Emory University's Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) is hosting a new website to...