"Aint that Something?"
...shotgun. The region's lack of options and the citizens' lack of power make employment complicated, as Dawn realizes about her uncle and cousin, both coal miners: "They loved it here,...
Mississippi Delta
...Florida panther. Prevalent trees included sweetgum, hackberry, cottonwood, persimmon, and river cane, the latter growing in dense patches. Picking cotton in some of the poorer land, Mississippi Delta, near Clarksdale,...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...War II. This accelerated into a series of lawsuits filed by New York based conservationists protesting the indiscriminate spraying of DDT in the late 1950s. The legal action failed, but...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...antebellum racial politics when one considers the brief description of Mammoth Cave in Russell Lant Carpenter's Observations on American Slavery [1852].27Russell Lant Carpenter, Observations on American Slavery After a Year's...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...Woody Harrelson in virtuoso performances, travel from Lake Charles to Avoyelles to Lafayette to lower Terrebonne to Beaumont, Texas, to suburban New Orleans to Erath, tracing intensities and textures of...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...a Slave. While McQueen didn't pick up the same trophy at the Golden Globes a few weeks later, he arguably took home that night's biggest prize when 12 Years a...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...y las fuerzas guerrilleras. Sin embargo, la devastación económica causada por la guerra y la continuada desigualdad con las secuelas de la guerra contribuyó a una segunda ola de inmigración...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Stephanie Dowda on Topophilia
...encounter with The Lightning Field in New Mexico, an installation piece by renowned sculptor, Walter De Maria. Dowda describes the piece as a quarter-mile long desert field installed with nearly...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...as state-owned residences increasingly devolved into urban ruins. Simultaneously, racial and economic landscapes were reconfigured. As local housing authorities demolished public housing, primarily black residents found themselves experiencing a late...
Nashville, Tennessee images
Nashville, Tennessee: Renovation, War Memorial Building Opened in 1927, Nashville's War Memorial Building is part of the State Capitol Complex. Tourists and Legends Corner, Lower Broadway Legends Corner bills itself...