New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...vitally important. Most students begin with strong preconceived notions about environmentalism (Birkenstocks, tofu) that prove tough to dislodge. This field-of-movements framework does raise a broader question within environmentalist writing and...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...a sure foot, dat's certain" (34). After reflecting that he cannot fail the attempt "without losing prestige in the old man's eyes," Rusling is rewarded with a view of "wild...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...large single tulip motif. Each tulip blossom has five points and is attached to a stem having two small leaves. Compared with other appliquéd floral patterns, these "Carolina" Tulip quilts...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...released through the boutique DVD label. Linklater's fascination with the passing of time and its relationship with physical movement emerges in his first full-length movie, Slacker (1991), which consists of...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...this edited interview with Southern Spaces, Thompson discusses his farming experiences and education, why he made these documentaries, their reception, migrant work in Florida and North Carolina, and the prospects...
"Aint that Something?"
...depictions of Appalachia that shatter these stereotypes will take a more prominent place in the national imagination. In particular, Appalachian literature is vast, and encompasses a wide range of voices...
Mississippi Delta
...in the eastern floodplain of the lower Mississippi River. It is sixty miles at its widest point from the Yazoo to the Mississippi, in what poet William Alexander Percy called "a badly...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...Hood. The elder Hood played bass with the renowned studio band at Muscle Shoals’ Fame Studios. Over the course of his career, he backed up Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, the...
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...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...all worked to use the new medium to their advantage. Logo for the US Federal Communications Commission. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Television became a subject of scrutiny within the politics...