Ossabaw Island Flyover
...the island, but most moved to the mainland after the Sea Island Hurricane of 1893. Many of their descendants today comprise the Gullah-Geechee community in Pin Point, Georgia. Through the...
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
...Today, the area has become a prominent suburban enclave near Atlanta's urban center. Celebrated landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted drew the original plans for Druid Hills in the late nineteenth...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...of these people who were interviewed in the film would want copies of it. I didn't think they would use it on their website as a way to promote their...
Remnants of Flannery
...eighty-nine years old today. O'Connor's legacy is unique among southern writers. Unlike contemporaries Eudora Welty or Carson McCullers, O'Connor primarily wrote short stories that drew upon her bleak, dark, and...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...to the family. By some estimates, there are about fifteen hundred Bunker descendants today, spread throughout the world, although most of them have stayed close to their ancestral haunt in...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...Southern Education Foundation's website for additional details and rankings of school districts. The highest rates were concentrated primarily in southern school districts although several non-southern states, especially Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana,...
The Liminal Site
...Nashville Railroad, which carried iron ore from the mines that still angle down into the narrow seam of ore-bearing sandstone that runs along the ridge. Today, it's a footpath that...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...dehumanization. Der Schlangenbandiger (The Snake Charmer), illustrated in this print, became a mid-twentieth-century Mami Wata icon. Chromolithograph reprinted by the Shree Ram Calendar Company, Bombay, India, 1955. Originally printed by...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...by Spanish explorers and missionaries on the lands of the Payaya Indians in 1718, San Antonio de Béxar was capital of the Spanish and later Mexican colonial province called Tejas....
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...the pain. After the war, Lee privately called the report untrue but did not refute the allegation publicly. Historians today accept the account as accurate in the larger details.4John W....