Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...is natural to any one thinking that it is pleasant to be one.... Once in talking and saying that in America the best material is used in the cheapest things...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...disparate strands of evidence in Spanish, English, French, and indigenous language sources into a larger tapestry characterized by the irony of communication, she leaves a number of loose ends. Mentioning...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...from an individual identifying himself as "General Gordon of the Confederate Underground." "We bombed a temple in Atlanta," intoned the voice. "This is the last empty building we will bomb...
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...
Editors
...University of South Carolina Ernesto Chávez, University of Texas-El Paso Robin Conner, Georgia State University Michan Connor, University of Texas at Arlington Tim Crimmins, Georgia State University Jane Dailey, Johns...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...are more often than not organized around watersheds and have nonrigid boundaries that differ from political borders like those around counties or nations. After only a few months in Port...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...male. However, since at the least the 1970s, women have worked in the mines, including underground, albeit in small numbers. I use the language of "wives and widows" because most...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...by the federal government. These are important not only to provide background and context, but also because the often-contested terrain of scientific knowledge and expertise is so central to understanding...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...by having the climactic scene of "Kabnis" take place underground is figured aboveground in 12 Years a Slave. At one point during his captivity on the Epps plantation (time in...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...institution, so long dominated by a privileged few. Background Material, 2009 Juan Logan and Susan Harbage Page Wood, fabric, paint, and paper Juan Logan's Background Material: Wallpaper, a...