Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...in climate, vegetation, and landform as an aid to conservation problems. Regional differences were officially recognized in Robert G. Bailey's 1978 book, which divided the United States into 60 "ecoregions"...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...of a singing in Australia, are perhaps the most noticeable of all changes on this world map. Even at this scale, changes within the United States, such as the increase...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...Southern United States," Annual Review of Sociology 38 (2012): 483–506. and as a place of opportunity, good jobs, and a quality of life attractive to many people whose parents or...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...who, like the Mims, were directly affected by the town's chemical dramas, serves as a powerful "argument for reforming how we manufacture, use, and regulate toxic chemicals in the United...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...of traditional Texanness and modern liberalism" (163). Playing the part of the manly, uncouth Texan, LBJ signed crucial legislation of the civil rights era while stubbornly insisting that the United...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...singings today are held across the United States and beyond every weekend of the year. Yet we think the recordings of these three songs provide new virtual access to the...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...rural counties across the United States, Madison experienced rapid change. In the 1960s, a significant number of newcomers entered Madison County from outside the Southern Appalachian region. The earliest of...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...the speech of Hon. Henry R. Jackson of Savannah, Ga., (Atlanta: E. Holland, 1891). The last documented shipment of enslaved Africans brought to the United States was disembarked at Mobile,...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...too close to home, the horror that helped build the United States and continues to haunt us. Solomon Northup in his "plantation suit," ca. 1853. Engraving from Solomon Northrup's Twelve...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...just to read Evan's work but also to have extensive conversations with her as she was developing her thesis. often in novels set in the United States or the Caribbean,...